Rowland Mason Ordish

Rowland Mason Ordish (11 April 1824 – 1886)[1] was an English engineer.

He is most noted for his design of the Winter Garden, Dublin (1865),[2] for his detailed work on the single-span roof of London's St Pancras railway station, undertaken with William Henry Barlow (1868)[3] and the Albert Bridge, a crossing of the River Thames in London, completed in 1873.

[4] Born in Melbourne, Derbyshire, Ordish was the son of a land agent and surveyor.

[5] His other projects included: He died in 1886 and was buried in a family grave on the western side of Highgate Cemetery.

[5] The Ordish–Lefeuvre Principle is named after him and his partner William Henry Le Feuvre (1832 – 1896) from Jersey (together the pair submitted plans for the department store De Gruchy's in St Helier, Jersey).