Rowland Mason Ordish, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Rowland Mason Ordish

English engineer

Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1824

Date of Death: 12-Sep-1886

Profession: engineer, civil engineer

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Rowland Mason Ordish (11 April 1824 – 1886) was an English engineer.
He is most noted for his design of the Winter Garden, Dublin (1865), for his detailed work on the single-span roof of London's St Pancras railway station, undertaken with William Henry Barlow (1868) and the Albert Bridge, a crossing of the River Thames in London, completed in 1873.Born in Melbourne, Derbyshire, Ordish was the son of a land agent and surveyor.
He worked with Charles (later Sir Charles) Fox, who was responsible for the construction of Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London in 1851.
He subsequently supervised its re-erection in Sydenham, south London.His other projects included: Farringdon Street Bridge, London Holborn Viaduct, London (1863–9) Derby market hall (1866) Franz Joseph I Suspension Bridge, over the Vltava, Prague (1868, bombed 1941, demolished in 1947) Cavenagh Bridge, Singapore (1869) Esplanade Mansions, Mumbai, India (1869) dome of Royal Albert Hall, London (1871)