Alexandra Wedgwood

Alexandra Mary, Lady Wedgwood, FSA (née Gordon Clark; born 30 July 1938) is an English architectural historian and expert on the work of Augustus Pugin.

Alexandra Mary Gordon Clark was born on 30 July 1938 to the judge and crime writer Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark, who wrote under the pseudonym Cyril Hare, and Mary Barbara Lawrence (the daughter of Sir William Lawrence, 3rd Baronet).

[2] Wedgwood did the initial research for the volume, and then completed significant parts of the work, including the whole of the section on Birmingham.

[3] In January 1980, she was appointed architectural archivist to the House of Lords on the recommendation of Sir Robert Cooke, member of Parliament and adviser to the Secretary of State, who wished to ensure the historically accurate restoration of the Palace of Westminster.

She is also the painting curator at Dorking Museum, and is the patron, and former president, of The Pugin Society.