This is the first biography of T. G. Jackson, an architect who transformed the image of Oxford, rebuilt public schools, and became a leading architect of the arts and crafts movement. Although many of his buildings are famous, until now he has been little known. Yet his work illuminates a whole society as well as an individual. An exploration of the career of the successful architect, Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, leads outwards into Victorian and Edwardian society in a multitude of ways. It opens up questions of taste, style, aesthetic ideals and ambitions, as well as of patronage, resources and social structure. William Whyte has seized all these opportunities triumphantly.