Papers relating to Benjamin Fletcher, Head Master of the Leicester Municipal School of Art 1895-2011

Leicester School of Art | 1870-1897

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De Montfort University originated in the Leicester School of Art, founded in 1870. A Technical School followed in 1882. The aim of both schools was to provide skilled workers for local industry. In 1897 the School was taken over by the Town Council of the County Borough of Leicester and renamed the Leicester Municipal Technical and Art School. The Technical section of the School operated a Day Department for school leavers over the age of 15 to take a 2 year Technical, C...

Fletcher, Benjamin John., 1868-1951

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Benjamin John Fletcher, 1868-1951

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Benjamin John Fletcher was born in Ironbridge, Shropshire, on the 13th March 1868. At the age of 11 he started work as an errand boy at the local Coalbrookdale Iron Company. It appears that he also undertook lessons in art, for by the age of 17 he was advanced enough to have a part-time teaching post at the Coalbrookdale School of Art under Principal Augustus Spencer. In 1888 Spencer was appointed Head Master of the Leicester School of Art and brought Fletcher, then 20 y...

Leicester Municipal Technical and Art School | 1897-1919

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De Montfort University originated in the Leicester School of Art, founded in 1870. A Technical School followed in 1882. The aim of both schools was to provide skilled workers for local industry. In 1897 the School was taken over by the Town Council of the County Borough of Leicester and renamed the Leicester Municipal Technical and Art School. The Technical section of the School operated a Day Department for school leavers over the age of 15 to take a 2 year Technical, C...

Peach, Harry Hardy, 1874-1936

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Epithet: designer and craftsman British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000544.0x0000ad ...

Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931

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English architect and antiquarian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, [1901 July 20]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270590725 ...

Bottomley, Gordon, 1874-1948

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Gordon Bottomley was an English author, known primarily for his verse plays. Born in Yorkshire, he took a job as a bank clerk, but had to give it up due to a tubercular condition, which contributed to his comparatively quiet life. He was an accomplished poet, and devoted himself to reviving the art of verse drama, writing some thirty plays, almost all of them in verse. He remains a gifted and visionary Georgian author. Bottomley married painter Emily Burton, and their home, The Sheiling, was a p...

Pick, Frank, 1878-1941

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Epithet: transport administrator British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000544.0x0000ae ...