John Harvey | |
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&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:John_Hooper_Harvey.png) John Hooper Harvey in 1978 | |
| Born | 25 May 1911 |
| Died | 18 November 1997 (aged 86) |
| Education | St John's School, Leatherhead |
| Alma mater | Regent Street Polytechnic |
| Occupation | Architectural historian |
| Political party | Imperial Fascist League |
| Movement | Fascism, Nordicism |
John Hooper Harvey FSA (25 May 1911 – 18 November 1997) was an English architectural historian, who specialised in writing on English Gothic architecture and architects. Art historian Paul Crossley described him as "the most prolific and arguably the most influential writer on Gothic architecture in the post-war years".[1]
Harvey made extensive use of archival sources, and is particularly remembered for having – through his study of Henry Yevele (1944), and his biographical dictionary of English Mediaeval Architects (1954) – helped dispel the myth that the architects of medieval buildings were anonymous figures of whom little could be discovered. He also published more generally on England in the Late Middle Ages, and was a pioneer in the field of garden history.
In the 1930s, Harvey was a member of the Imperial Fascist League and a regular contributor to their newspaper, The Fascist.
- ^ Crossley 2006, p. 473.