Sir Richard MacCormac CBE PPRIBA RA FRSA |
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Born |
Marylebone, London, UK |
3 September 1938
Died | 26 July 2014 Spitalfields, London, UK |
(aged 75)
Cause of death | Cancer |
Nationality | United Kingdom |
Citizenship | British |
Alma mater |
Trinity College, University of Cambridge Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London |
Occupation | Architect/university lecturer |
Years active | 1967–2014 |
Notable work | Ruskin Library, Southwark tube station |
Home town | Marylebone, London, England, UK |
Spouse(s) | Susan Karin Landen (c1964) |
Partner(s) | Jocasta Innes (c1981 – 2013, her death) |
Children | William Paul Lars MacCormac Luke Henry Landen MacCormac (1971–1982) |
Sir Richard Cornelius MacCormac CBE, PPRIBA, FRSA, RA (3 September 1938 – 26 July 2014), was a modernist British architect and the founder of MJP Architects.
Richard Cornelius MacCormac was born in Marylebone, London on 3 September 1938, the son of Dr. Henry MacCormac, (1879 – 12 December 1950), CBE FRCP, a dermatologist of Ulster origin, and Marion Maude MacCormac (1906–1998; née Broomhall).
Through his paternal lineage, MacCormac was the great-grandson of Dr. Henry MacCormac, a prominent nineteenth-century physician in Northern Ireland who was the father of Sir William MacCormac, 1st Bt, KCB, KCVO, who served as a house physician and surgeon to Queen Victoria and honorary sergeant-surgeon to King Edward VII. 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. Distant relatives also include a branch of the Easmon family of Sierra Leone, descended from Dr. John Farrell Easmon, the discoverer of Blackwater fever.