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JOSEPH ALOYSIUS HANSOM (1803-1882)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 931 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH ALOYSIUS See also:HANSOM (1803-1882)  , See also:English architect and inventor, was See also:born in See also:York on the 26th of See also:October 1803 . Showing an aptitude for designing and construction, he was taken from his See also:father's See also:joinery See also:shop and apprenticed to an architect in York, and, by 1831, his designs for the See also:Birmingham See also:town See also:hall were accepted and followed—to his See also:financial undoing, as he had become See also:bond for the builders . In 1834 he registered the See also:design of a " Patent Safety See also:Cab," and subsequently sold the patent to a See also:company for £1o,000, which, however, owing to the company's financial difficulties, was never paid . The See also:hansom cab as improved by subsequent alterations, nevertheless, took and held the See also:fancy of the public . There was no back seat for the See also:driver in the See also:original design, and there is little beside the suspended See also:axle and large wheels in the See also:modern hansom to recall the See also:early ones . In 1834 Hansom founded the Builder newspaper, but was compelled to retire from this enterprise owing to in-sufficient See also:capital . Between 1854 and 1879 he devoted himself to See also:architecture, designing and erecting a See also:great number of important buildings, private and public, including churches, See also:schools and convents for the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:church to which he belonged . Buildings from his designs are scattered all over the See also:United See also:Kingdom, and were even erected in See also:Australia and See also:South See also:America . He died in See also:London on the 29th of See also:June 1882 .

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