Former RIBA president Bryan Jefferson dies at 86

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Former RIBA president Bryan Jefferson, described as 'the last architect to have any influence in government', has died aged 86. The founding partner of Jefferson Sheard grew up in Sheffield and stayed in the city to study - although he was sent out to Bakewell during the blitz -graduating from the University of Sheffield in 1957. In 1958, he set up the practice Jefferson Sheard with friend and fellow Sheffield alumnus Gerry Sheard. The practice quickly grew, opening a London office in 1964 and one in Peterborough in the early 1980s.