William Hiorne

William Hiorne (c. 1712 – 22 April 1776)[1] was an architect and builder based in Warwick.

With his younger brother David Hiorne (1715–58), he worked for William Smith of Warwick and they succeeded Smith in business.

His son, Francis Hiorne also became an architect.

His memorial is in St Mary’s Church, Warwick.

Works

gollark: I'm not sure I would trust my brain to computers in any case, given the horrible security record of... most complex computer systems... which will likely only get worse as complexity increases. Though I suppose my foolish organic brain has its own (probably not remotely exploitable, at least?) security flaws.
gollark: SSDs are pretty dense. They're just expensive.
gollark: Hopefully brains parallelize well.
gollark: Maybe. Growth in computing power has slowed lately.
gollark: I think people have (obviously very roughly) estimated that you would need something like an exabyte of storage and exaflop of processing power to run a brain.

References

  1. Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century. John Nichols. 1815
  2. Colvin, Howard (1995). A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 (3rd ed.). New Haven and London: Yale University Press. p. 495-496. ISBN 0300060912.
  3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198606788 p.364
  4. The Buildings of England. Shropshire. Nikolaus Pevsner. p96
  5. Styles, Philip, ed. (1945). "The borough of Stratford-upon-Avon: Churches and charities". A History of the County of Warwick. 3. London: Victoria Country History. pp. 269–282. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
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