1947

Samuel Courtauld

Industrialist and art collector. 1932 founded The Courtauld Institute of Art. Managed the family textile firm as a director from 1908, and as chair 1921-46.

Served twice as chair of the Trustees of the National Gallery.

This image is from The Victorian Web but is © The Courtauld Institute of Art, London. By courtesy of the Courtauld Gallery London. We see a handsome, thoughtful man, who, despite his wealth, seems shy and reticent, and indeed he declined a peerage in 1937.

Almost certainly related to Samuel Augustine Courtauld but we cannot discover how.

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Samuel Courtauld

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Muses - Apollo

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Paolo Veronese

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Person, Art, Italy

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Martin A. Buckmaster

Elected to membership of the Arts Club in 1897. Still a member in 1920 when The Arts Club and its Members, our source for this information, was published. The oldest member of the club, aged 94 yea...

Person, Art, Community / Clubs

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James Salisbury

Lettering craftsman. Creator of memorials, plaques, architectural signage, garden objects and sculptural lettering exhibits. See The Lettering Arts Trust for more of his work.

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T. M. Rooke

Designer and artist. Born Thomas Matthews Rooke. We can't find his precise dates so we don't know if he made his hundred - not common even now and a rare achievement in the 1940s. From the Bedford...

Person, Art

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Duncan Grant

Painter and designer. Born Scotland but brought up in India, Burma and Rugby School. Cousin and for a time lover of Lyton Strachey, through whom he met and joined the Bloomsbury Group. He also had ...

Person, Art, Craft / Design, Scotland

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American Bar Association

Stated mission: "To serve equally our members, our profession and the public by defending liberty and delivering justice as the national representative of the legal profession."

Group, Law, USA

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Frederick Manable

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Earl Jowitt

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Person, Law, Politics & Administration

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Lady Lesley Jowitt

Patron of the arts and Communist Party member. Born as Lesley Stewart McIntyre. Married William, the later Earl Jowitt, in 1913 thus becoming Viscountess Jowitt in 1940. See Boris Anrep for detail...

Person, Art, Politics & Administration

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Henry Spurstowe

A London merchant and alderman. Brother and heir to William. Made provison for the support and maintenance of the 'poor widows' for whom William had provided the almshouse. We'd guess that Henry...

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