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Ruth Pennyman
Ruth Pennyman (born Ruth Constance Dorrien Knight 1893–1983) was an English artist, designer, community organiser and theatrical producer. She was the wife of aristocratic land-owner Major James Pennyman of Ormesby Hall in Middlesbrough. Biography Pennyman was the daughter of Rev. Francis Henry Grenville Knight, a rector from Upton-upon-Pyne. She studied at St John's Wood Art School where she learned stage design, interior decoration and illustration. During World War I she became a nurse, and in 1926 she married Major Pennyman. During the inter-war years she developed a keen social conscience and used her prominent position to help communities in need. In 1932 she helped establish the Cleveland Work Camps, a self-help scheme aimed at alleviating the poverty of unemployed iron-stone miners during the Great Depression. In the late 1930s, as chair of the local branch of the National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief, she was instrumental in rescuing a group of Basque refugee chil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ormesby Hall
Ormesby Hall, a Grade I listed building, is a predominantly 18th-century mansion house built in the Palladian style and completed in 1754. It is situated in Ormesby, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire in the north-east of England. The home of the Pennyman family, originally dating from , the property has been much modernised. Now described as a "classic Georgian mansion", it comprises a main residential block and an adjacent stable block. The stable block housed the horses of Cleveland Police Mounted Section until their disbandment in December 2013. The Pennyman family began acquiring land in Ormesby in the 16th century and bought the Manor of Ormesby in about 1600 from the Conyers/Strangeways family. They acquired a Baronetcy from Charles II for fighting on the side of the royalists in the English Civil War, which became extinct in 1852 with the death of Sir William Pennyman. They lived in the house until 1983 when the National Trust opened the property and its of land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |