Richard MacCormac

The family was a well-known medical dynasty in the nineteenth century that originated from County Armagh and claims descent from Cornelius MacCormac, a high-ranking naval officer, and Colonel Joseph Hall, a wealthy distiller in County Armagh.

[1] MacCormac's commercial clients included: Southwark tube station for the Jubilee Line Extension (Royal Fine Art Commission Trust/BSkyB Millennium Building of the Year Award 2000);[1] the Wellcome Foundation Wing/Dana Centre at the Science Museum, London (Celebrating Construction Achievement Regnl Award for Greater London 2000);[1] the Cable and Wireless training centre in Coventry (Royal Fine Art Commission/Sunday Times Building of the Year Award 1994)[1] and a Tesco supermarket in Ludlow.

[6] MacCormac was a co-founder of the Phoenix Initiative, working on merging art and architecture for the future concept of central Coventry.

[1] His hobbies included music and reading,[1] and he owned and sailed a 1908 oyster fishing smack in the Thames Estuary.

[9] In 1981, MacCormac met his long-term partner, Jocasta Innes, a well-known author who wrote over 60 books.

With Jocasta Innes' death on 20 April 2013 and fighting his own cancer battle, her house was put up for sale.