Background
Jon Harris was born 1943, in North Staffordshire. He had an itinerant, partly colonial youth.
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He lives in Cambridge, which he has made his base since he graduated from Cambridge University, with a degree in Art History, in 1965. He was educated at Winchester College, where he was a scholar. He began in Architecture at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University in 1961, and finished in Art History.
Career
Cambridge is also the principal subject of his drawings. With his encyclopaedic knowledge of the architectural history of Cambridge, Jon Harris is much in demand as a historical advisor on developments and re-furbishments. In 2007 he advised Magdelene College on the colour scheme for the restoration of a range of medieval buildings in Magdelene Street, Cambridge.
Jon Harris embarked in July 2008 on the writing of an illustrated book about the buildings and history of Cambridge.
This is expected to be published by the Lutterworth Press, Cambridge, in 2010.
Membership
He is a member of Cambridge City Council"s Design & Conservation Panel, before which significant new developments are brought for appraisal.
