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St George's Museum
The Guild of St George is a charitable Education Trust, based in England but with a worldwide membership, which tries to uphold the values and put into practice the ideas of its founder, John Ruskin (1819–1900). History Ruskin, a Victorian polymath, established the Guild in the 1870s. Founded as St George's Company in 1871, it adopted its current name and constitution in 1878. Ruskin, the most influential art critic of his day, had turned increasingly to social concerns from the 1850s. His highly influential critique of Victorian political economy, ''Unto This Last'', was serialised in 1860, and published with an additional preface in book-form in 1862. In lectures, letters and other published writings, he used his considerable rhetorical skills to denounce modern, industrial capitalism, and the theorists and politicians who served it. He considered that the ugliness, pollution and poverty it caused were undermining the nation. His deeply felt moral conviction that human soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Warren (artist)
Emily Mary Bibbens Warren (1869 – 1956) was a British Canadian artist and illustrator. She worked in ink, watercolour, oil, gouache, and graphite. Her favourite subjects included gardens, landscape, and interiors and exteriors of buildings. She is known for sunlight beaming through stained glass windows. Early career Emily Warren instigated a successful movement to have John Ruskin's home, Brantwood, made into a museum. She lectured before Ruskin Societies. She took a course in architecture by Sir Bannister Fletcher. She graduated from the Royal College of Art, South Kensington in 1887 at the age of 18. In 1897 she received her Art Masters Certificate from that same college. She took certificates in biology, botany and geology. She moved to Canada in 1919 and lived in Ottawa, Ontario. She lived in Montreal, Quebec from 1928 to 1934. She died in Dunrobin, Ontario in 1956. Memberships She was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Watercolour Soci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Harvey (social Reformer)
Thomas Edmund Harvey (4 January 1875 – 3 May 1955), generally known as Edmund Harvey, was an English museum curator, social reformer and politician. He sat in Parliament, first as a Liberal and later as an Independent Progressive. He was also a prolific writer on Christianity and the role and history of the Society of Friends. Early life Harvey was born in Leeds to a prominent Quaker family.''The Times'', 4 May 1955 p15 He was the eldest son of William Harvey, a teacher and art collector, who made a substantial gift of paintings by Dutch and Flemish masters to the nation, as well as being a local politician, serving for 13 years on Leeds City Council. His brother was the writer William Fryer Harvey, best known for his short story ''The Beast with Five Fingers'' that was turned into a film of the same name, starring Peter Lorre. Harvey was educated at Bootham School in York and attended Yorkshire College, Leeds and Christ Church, Oxford. He also studied at the Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Talbot
Fanny Talbot (née) Browne (1824–1917) was a landowner and philanthropist, and a friend and correspondent of the influential art critic John Ruskin. She is noted for donating the first property— of land known as Cliff of Light (''Dinas Oleu'' in Welsh), at Barmouth, Gwynedd—to the National Trust. Life and works Fanny Browne was born in Bridgwater, Somerset, in 1824, the daughter of Mary and John Browne. In 1850, she married George Tertius Talbot and they had one son George Quartus (Quarry) Talbot, born in 1854. The couple lived in the household of her parents in Bridgwater. She moved to Ty'n-y-Ffynon, a cottage in Barmouth Barmouth ( cy, Abermaw (formal); ''Y Bermo'' (colloquial)) is a seaside town and community in the county of Gwynedd, northwestern Wales, lying on the estuary of the Afon Mawddach and Cardigan Bay. Located in the historic county of Merioneths ..., North Wales following her husband’s death in 1873 aged 47 and devoted herself to local philan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Smart (economist)
William Smart (10 April 1853 – 19 March 1915) was a Scottish economist. Initially inspired by Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin, Smart was a conveyor of the thought of the Austrian School The Austrian School is a heterodox school of economic thought that advocates strict adherence to methodological individualism, the concept that social phenomena result exclusively from the motivations and actions of individuals. Austrian schoo ..., before being won-over to the neoclassicalism of Alfred Marshall. Smart, eldest son of Alexander Smart and grandson of Reverend William Smart, was born in Barrhead, Scotland. Works ''An Introduction to the Theory of Value on the Lines of Menger, Wieser, and Böhm-Bawerk''(1891, 1910). ''The Return to Protection''(1904) * * * * * References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Smart, William 1853 births 1915 deaths British economists Scottish economists Neoclassical economists Austrian School economists People from Barrhead Guild ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Morse
Sydney Morse was a rugby union international who represented England from 1873 to 1875. Early life Sydney Morse was born on 1 June 1854 in Birmingham. He was the son of Rev Francis Morse, MA, and his wife Clarissa Catharine Morse. Francis, at the time of Sydney's birth, was the incumbent of the parish of St John's Church, Ladywood, Birmingham. Francis was the son of Thomas Morse, of Flixton, near Lowestoft, and was born in 1819, and educated at Shrewsbury School and St John's College, Cambridge. Sydney had ten siblings among whom were Catharine Elizabeth (b. 1850), Clara (b. 1851), Edward St John Morse (b. 1852), Harold (b. 1860), Harriet Emily (b. 1864), Winifred Mary, (b. 1868) and Margaret Ellinor, (b. 1870). Rugby union career Morse played rugby at Marlborough College and went on to play for the school's old boys club in London, the Marlborough Nomads. However, he also played for the Law Club, a club open only to members of the legal profession, and it was whilst regis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Monk (artist)
William Monk R.E. (1863–1937) was a British etcher, wood-engraver and painter in oils and watercolours. Born in Chester, the son of gunmaker William Henry Monk, he studied art at the Chester School of Art and etching at the Antwerp Academy, Belgium. He was an Associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers from 1884 and elected a full member (R.E.) in 1899. He lived in London from 1892 and published the "Calendorium Londonense" or "London Almanack" of his illustrations of London from 1903, and in Chesham Bois, Bucks from 1911-1915. The Wolverhampton company of Mander Brothers published a series of his views as calendars in the 1920s and 1930s. He returned to Chester in 1933. Examples of his work can be found in the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Imperial War Museum. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in the Summer Exhibition from 1894 to 1933. In 2013 the Grosvenor Museum Grosvenor Museum is a museum in Chester, Cheshire, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Leach
Frederick Richard Leach (1837–1904) was an English master decorator, mural and stained glass painter based in Cambridge. He worked with the architects George Frederick Bodley and George Gilbert Scott Junior, the designer William Morris and the church craftsman Charles Eamer Kempe on many Victorian Gothic revival churches, Cambridge college interiors and church restorations. Biography Leach was born in Cambridge, where his father, Richard Hopkins Leach was an artist and craftsman. It is uncertain how he was educated, although he clearly was highly literate and erudite, with a good knowledge of art and literature. At 17 he resolved to use his talents for God. A sincere member of the Church of England, his personal beliefs tended towards low church Anglicanism. His preferred place of worship was Christ Church, Cambridge, an early Victorian structure, where he made the east window, but he worked on many high church (or Anglo-Catholic) commissions, thinking that this was for the g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Creswick
Benjamin Creswick, RBSA (1853–1946) was an English sculptor. Life Benjamin Creswick was born in Sheffield, the son of a spectacle-maker. He started his working life as a knife-grinder, but took up sculpture with the encouragement of John Ruskin. In 1887 he modelled a terracotta frieze showing the processes of knife-grinding for the exterior of Cutlers' Hall, in Warwick Lane in the City of London. In the same year he made a frieze for Henry Heath's shop in Oxford Street, London, showing hat-makers at work. Creswick worked on various projects with A.H. Mackmurdo, such as the decoration of Pownall Hall in Cheshire, and contributed to the display by Mackmurdo's Century Guild at the Inventions Exhibition in 1885, though he did not join the guild until the following year. He spent some time in Liverpool and Manchester, before moving to Birmingham, where he was Master of Modelling and Modelled Design at the Birmingham School of Art from 1889 to 1918. He exhibited at the Royal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Colenso
Frances Ellen Colenso (30 May 1849 – 28 April 1887) was an English historian of the Zulu Wars. Life Colenso was born in Forncett in Norfolk in 1849. Her father was John Colenso and her mother was Frances Colenso. She was known as "Fanny" by her family and friends. Colenso was educated at the John Ruskin inspired Winnington Hall until 1864 before attending the Slade School of Art. She wrote and aspired to be an artist.B. M. Nicholls, ‘Colenso, Harriette Emily (1847–1932)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 200accessed 2 Jan 2017/ref> Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Durnford was stationed at Pietermaritzburg in 1873 where he was befriended by her father. Durnford had a close relationship with Colenso. Though Durnford and his wife lived separate lives, the fact that he was married meant that he and Frances could only be close friends.J. P. C. Laband, ‘Durnford, Anthony William (1830–1879)’, Oxford Dictionary of Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Henry Chamberlain
John Henry Chamberlain (21 June 1831 – 22 October 1883), generally known professionally as J. H. Chamberlain, was a British nineteenth-century architect based in Birmingham. Working predominantly in the Victorian Gothic style, he was one of the earliest and foremost practical exponents of the ideas of architectural theorist John Ruskin, who selected Chamberlain as one of the trustees of his Guild of St George. Chamberlain's later work was increasingly influenced by the early Arts and Crafts movement. The majority of Chamberlain's buildings were located in and around Birmingham, where he was a major figure in civic life and an influential friend of many of the Liberal elite who dominated the city under Mayor Joseph Chamberlain (to whom he was unrelated). Life Chamberlain was born in Leicester on 21 June 1831, son of a Baptist minister, and received his architectural training with a local practice. After further experience in London and a period travelling in Italy he moved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Field (author)
Michael Field was a pseudonym used for the poetry and verse drama of the English authors Katherine Harris Bradley (27 October 1846 – 26 September 1914) and her niece and ward Edith Emma Cooper (12 January 1862 – 13 December 1913). As Field they wrote around 40 works together, and a long journal ''Works and Days''. Their intention was to keep the pen-name secret, but it became public knowledge, not long after they had confided in their friend Robert Browning. Biographies Katherine Bradley was born on 27 October 1846 in Birmingham, England, the daughter of Charles Bradley, a tobacco manufacturer, and of Emma (née Harris). Her grandfather, also Charles Bradley (1785–1845), was a prominent follower and financial backer of prophetess Joanna Southcott and her self-styled successor John Ward (prophet), John "Zion" Ward. She attended lectures at the Collège de France in 1868, and in 1874 she attended a course at Newnham College, Cambridge specially designed for women, who howe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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