Alexandra Wedgwood

Alexandra Mary, Lady Wedgwood, (née Gordon Clark; born 30 July 1938) is an English architectural historian and expert on the work of Augustus Pugin. She is the patron of the Pugin Society and the former architectural archivist of the House of Lords. Early life and family 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). She has a brother, the clergyman Charles Philip Gordon Clark, and a sister Cecilia Mary Gordon Clark (a wife of Roderick Snell). She was educated at Guildford High School and received her advanced education at the Courtauld Institute of Art. In 1963, she married Sir Hugo Martin Wedgwood, 3rd Baronet (1933–2010), the stockbroker and linguist. They had one son, Ralph (born 1964) and two daughters, Julia and Frances. Career In 1966, Wedgwood was named as joint author with Nikolaus Pevsner of the Warwickshire volume in his The Buildings of England series after Pevsner began to use collaborators to speed the completion of the series. Wedgwood did the initial research for the volume, and then completed significant parts of the work, including the whole of the section on Birmingham.