Who was born first, Kerry Downes or John Vanbrugh?
Kerry Downes Kerry John Downes (born 1930) is an English architectural historian whose speciality is English Baroque architecture. He is the son of the organist Ralph Downes (190493). He studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where he was inspired by the lectures of Margaret Whinney. He has written about (among other things) the English architects Nicholas Hawksmoor (  1661 1736), Sir John Vanbrugh (16641726) and Sir Christopher Wren (16321723), and the Flemish painter Sir Peter Paul Rubens (15771640). His fellow historian James Stevens Curl has written, "Downes's productivity seems to contradict his claim that procrastination is one of his recreations".
John Corry (writer) John Corry (fl. 1825) was an Irish topographer and historian writer. Among his other works he wrote and published "The Life of George Washington", first published in 1800.