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Francis Wedgwood, 2nd Baron Wedgwood
Francis Charles Bowen Wedgwood, 2nd Baron Wedgwood of Barlaston (20 January 1898 – 22 April 1959) was a British artist and hereditary peer. Biography The son of Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood and his wife Ethel Kate Bowen, the daughter of Charles Bowen, 1st Baron Bowen. He was the great-great-great-grandson of the potter Josiah Wedgwood. He was educated at Bedales School. During the First World War he served as an officer in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve and later the Royal Flying Corps. After the war, in 1920, he married Edith May Telfer, daughter of William Telfer of Glasgow. They had one son, The Hon. Hugh Wedgwood (born 1921), later 3rd Baron Wedgwood. Wedgwood studied at the Burslem School of Art (1920–1922), and the Slade School of Art (1922–1925). He exhibited at the New English Art Club, (1927–1930) and Royal Academy (1931–1939). Upon the death of his father in 1943, he became the 2nd Baron Wedgwood. Upon his own death in 1959, the title ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Right Honourable
''The Right Honourable'' ( abbreviation: ''Rt Hon.'' or variations) is an honorific style traditionally applied to certain persons and collective bodies in the United Kingdom, the former British Empire and the Commonwealth of Nations. The term is predominantly used today as a style associated with the holding of certain senior public offices in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and to a lesser extent, Australia. ''Right'' in this context is an adverb meaning 'very' or 'fully'. Grammatically, ''The Right Honourable'' is an adjectival phrase which gives information about a person. As such, it is not considered correct to apply it in direct address, nor to use it on its own as a title in place of a name; but rather it is used in the third person along with a name or noun to be modified. ''Right'' may be abbreviated to ''Rt'', and ''Honourable'' to ''Hon.'', or both. ''The'' is sometimes dropped in written abbreviated form, but is always pronounced. Countries with common or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burslem School Of Art
Burslem School of Art was an art school in the centre of the town of Burslem in the Potteries district of England. Students from the school played an important role in the local pottery industry. Pottery was made on the site of the school from the early Middle Ages. The venue was refurbished and re-opened for the arts in 1999. History The art school originated in 1853. In the nineteenth century each of the towns making up the (future) city of Stoke-on-Trent founded its own art school, the Burslem school moving into the Wedgwood Institute when it was completed in the 1860s. In 1906 the foundation stone was laid of a purpose-built art school, and the institution moved across Queen Street to this accommodation designed by A.R. Wood, a local architect. The new building with its distinctive large windows helped Burlem School of Art become pre-eminent in the district. Its heyday was recalled in ''Pottery Ladies'', a series of TV documentaries made in 1985. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 Deaths
Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of Earth's Moon, and was also the first spacecraft to be placed in heliocentric orbit. * January 3 ** The three southernmost atolls of the Maldive Islands, Maldive archipelago (Addu Atoll, Huvadhu Atoll and Fuvahmulah island) United Suvadive Republic, declare independence. ** Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state. * January 4 ** In Cuba, rebel troops led by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter the city of Havana. ** Léopoldville riots: At least 49 people are killed during clashes between the police and participants of a meeting of the ABAKO Party in Kinshasa, Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo. * January 6 ** Fidel Castro arrives in Havana. ** The International Maritime Organization is inaugurated. * January 7 – The United States reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1898 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island. * January 13 – Novelist Émile Zola's open letter to the President of the French Republic on the Dreyfus affair, ''J'Accuse…!'', is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper ''L'Aurore'', accusing the government of wrongfully imprisoning Alfred Dreyfus and of antisemitism. * February 12 – The automobile belonging to Henry Lindfield of Brighton rolls out of control down a hill in Purley, London, England, and hits a tree; thus he becomes the world's first fatality from an automobile accident on a public highway. * February 15 – Spanish–American War: The USS ''Maine'' explodes and sinks in Havana Harbor, Cuba, for reasons never fully established, killing 266 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Everard Wedgwood, 3rd Baron Wedgwood
Hugh Everard Wedgwood, 3rd Baron Wedgwood (20 April 1921 – 25 April 1970) was the third Baron Wedgwood of the pottery dynasty. Biography He was the son and only child of The Hon. Francis Wedgwood (later 2nd Baron) and his wife Edith May Telfer, daughter of William Telfer of Glasgow. He was the great-great-great-great-grandson of the potter Josiah Wedgwood. Like his father, he was educated at Bedales School. During the Second World War he served as an officer in the Kenya Regiment. In 1949 he married Jane Weymouth Poulton, daughter of W.J. Poulton of Kenjockety, Molo, Kenya; they had one son, Piers and two daughters. He was a farmer in Hillwood, Molo, Kenya, 1941–1964. Upon his father's death in 1959 he succeeded his father as the 3rd Baron Wedgwood. Upon his own death in 1970, the Barony passed to his son Piers Piers may refer to: * Pier, a raised structure over a body of water * Pier (architecture), an architectural support * Piers (name), a given name and surname (incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Wedgwood
Baron Wedgwood, of Barlaston in the County of Stafford, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1942 for the soldier and politician Josiah Wedgwood. He was the great-great-grandson of Josiah Wedgwood, the founder of the Wedgwood pottery dynasty. , the title is held by the first Baron's great-grandson, the fifth Baron, who succeeded his cousin in 2014. Ralph Wedgwood, younger brother of the first Baron, was created a baronet, in 1942. Barons Wedgwood (1942) * Josiah Clement Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood (1872–1943) *Francis Charles Bowen Wedgwood, 2nd Baron Wedgwood (1898–1959) *Hugh Everard Wedgwood, 3rd Baron Wedgwood (1921–1970) *Piers Anthony Weymouth Wedgwood, 4th Baron Wedgwood (1954–2014) *Antony John Wedgwood, 5th Baron Wedgwood (b. 1944) The heir apparent An heir apparent, often shortened to heir, is a person who is first in an order of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting by the birth of another person; a person who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts through exhibitions, education and debate. History The origin of the Royal Academy of Arts lies in an attempt in 1755 by members of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, principally the sculptor Henry Cheere, to found an autonomous academy of arts. Prior to this a number of artists were members of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, including Cheere and William Hogarth, or were involved in small-scale private art academies, such as the St Martin's Lane Academy. Although Cheere's attempt failed, the eventual charter, called an 'Instrument', used to establish the Royal Academy of Arts over a decad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New English Art Club
The New English Art Club (NEAC) was founded in London in 1885 as an alternative venue to the Royal Academy. It continues to hold an annual exhibition of paintings and drawings at the Mall Galleries in London, exhibiting works by both members and artists from Britain and abroad whose work has been selected from an annual open submission. History Young English artists returning from studying art in Paris mounted the first exhibition of the New English Art Club in April 1886. Among them were William Laidlay, Thomas Cooper Gotch, Frank Bramley, John Singer Sargent, Philip Wilson Steer, George Clausen and Stanhope Forbes. Another founding member was G. P. Jacomb-Hood. An early name suggested for the group was the 'Society of Anglo-French Painters', which gives some indication of their origins. As a note in the catalogue to their first exhibition explained, 'This Club consists of 50 Members, who are more or less united in their art sympathies. They have associated themselves togethe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slade School Of Art
The UCL Slade School of Fine Art (informally The Slade) is the art school of University College London (UCL) and is based in London, England. It has been ranked as the UK's top art and design educational institution. The school is organised as a department of UCL's Faculty of Arts and Humanities. History The school traces its roots back to 1868 when lawyer and philanthropist Felix Slade (1788–1868) bequeathed funds to establish three Chairs in Fine Art, to be based at Oxford University, Cambridge University and University College London, where six studentships were endowed. Distinguished past teachers include Henry Tonks, Wilson Steer, Randolph Schwabe, William Coldstream, Andrew Forge, Lucian Freud, Phyllida Barlow, John Hilliard, Bruce McLean, Alfred Gerrard. Edward Allington was Professor of Fine Art and Head of Graduate Sculpture until his death in 2017. Two of its most important periods were immediately before, and immediately after, the turn of the twentieth c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Wedgwood, 3rd Baron Wedgwood
Hugh Everard Wedgwood, 3rd Baron Wedgwood (20 April 1921 – 25 April 1970) was the third Baron Wedgwood of the pottery dynasty. Biography He was the son and only child of The Hon. Francis Wedgwood (later 2nd Baron) and his wife Edith May Telfer, daughter of William Telfer of Glasgow. He was the great-great-great-great-grandson of the potter Josiah Wedgwood. Like his father, he was educated at Bedales School. During the Second World War he served as an officer in the Kenya Regiment. In 1949 he married Jane Weymouth Poulton, daughter of W.J. Poulton of Kenjockety, Molo, Kenya; they had one son, Piers and two daughters. He was a farmer in Hillwood, Molo, Kenya, 1941–1964. Upon his father's death in 1959 he succeeded his father as the 3rd Baron Wedgwood. Upon his own death in 1970, the Barony passed to his son Piers Piers may refer to: * Pier, a raised structure over a body of water * Pier (architecture), an architectural support * Piers (name), a given name and surname (incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, the term is also often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers (although less often for actors). "Artiste" (French for artist) is a variant used in English in this context, but this use has become rare. Use of the term "artist" to describe writers is valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like used in criticism. Dictionary definitions The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' defines the older broad meanings of the term "artist": * A learned person or Master of Arts. * One who pursues a practical science, traditionally medicine, astrology, alchemy, chemistry. * A follower of a pursuit in which skill comes by study or practice. * A follower of a manual art, such a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Flying Corps
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