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1871-1944
Professor of Engineering drawing at the Ohio State University
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c1768-1832
Artist and architectural draughtsmanODNB Entry:
https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/22868
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Emeritus Professor of Ceramics
https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/brown-christie
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1896-28 Nov 1962
Professor of Architecture at the University of Manchester. Revised Normand's A Parallel of the Orders of Architecture.
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1896-1983
Grandfather was a Church of England ministerFather established an orphanage in Liverpool
He studied at Magdalen College Oxford
Came to Poly School of Art where he met future wife Josefina de Vasconcellos
Painted some of the 8 murals in the Fyvie Hall c.1920-1923. There is an article in the Poly Mag 1923 written by Banner about the paintings.
Didn't serve in World War 1 due to medical exemption 'a lateral spinal curvature that had started from learning sideways at his desk at school' [Margaret Lewis biog]
Very religious and became an Anglican lay preacher.
Painted landscapes of the Lake District where he lived wife Josefina.
Friends with the William Heelis and Beatrix Potter. Banner painted Potter.
Adopted 2 sons
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1912-1991
Worked in the Department of Cinematography.
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18 June 1860 – 21 May 1928
British sculptor who designed the Quintin Hogg Memorial statue in Portland Place
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d.1992
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d.1932
Established the Reading Circle in 1893 and accompanied many Polytechnic Touring Association tours to Europe as a guide, including trips to Central Europe, Norway,
Normandy, the Mediterranean and the Tyrolean Alps.
He was also involved with the French Society, Rambling Club, German Society, Mutual Improvement Society and continued Quintin Hogg’s Sunday afternoon lecture series on Egypt, which Hogg died before completing.
His career included work as a clerk at the India Office from 1879–97, an income-tax assessor between 1903–13 and in 1919 he became Deputy Accountant-General. In 1921 he was awarded a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire. He was also clearly esteemed by Hogg, who, in 1896, after only three years of the Circle, presented him with two bronze busts of Cromwell and Carlyle.
Educated at Whitgift Grammar School, Croydon and Lycée, St Omer. Graduated from London University with Honours in French in 1888. Also obtained an MA in Classics.