John Robert Furneaux Jordan ARIBA (10 April 1905 Birmingham – 14 May 1978 Burcombe, Wiltshire) was an English architect, architectural critic and novelist.
He worked as an architect from 1928 to 1961, after which he became an academic, broadcaster and lecturer, writing many books on architecture.
A son of the prominent surgeon John Furneaux Jordan,[1] Robert Jordan was educated at West House Preparatory School from 1915 to 1918 and then King Edward's School, Birmingham from 1918 to 1922.
[5] He wrote five crime novels under the name of Robert Player, (using his mother's maiden name) mostly set in the Victorian and Edwardian periods and published from 1945 until the late 1970s.
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