Education
He is most noted for his design of the Winter Garden, Dublin (1865), for his detailed work on the single-span roof of London"s Street Pancras railway station, undertaken with William Henry Barlow (1868) and the Albert Bridge, a crossing of the River Thames in London, completed in 1873.
Career
Born in Melbourne, Derbyshire, Ordish was the son of a land agent and surveyor. He worked with Charles (later Sir Charles) Fox, who was responsible for the construction of Joseph Paxton"s Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London in 1851. He subsequently supervised its re-erection in Sydenham, south London.
His other projects included:
Farringdon Street Bridge, London
Holborn Viaduct, London (1863-1869)
Derby market hall (1866)
Franz Joseph I Suspension Bridge, over the Vltava, Prague (1868, bombed 1941, demolished in 1947)
Cavenagh Bridge, Singapore (1869)
Esplanade Mansions, Mumbai, India (1871)
dome of Royal Albert Hall, London (1871)
In 1858 Ordish patented a bridge suspension system, which he later used in the design of bridges across several European rivers that include Neva at Street St. Petersburg.
The system, which consisting of a rigid girder suspended by inclined straight chains, was known as Ordish"s straight-chain suspension system.