Adams, Norman Edward Albert (1927–2005), artist, was born on 9 February 1927 in a flat at 74 Shernhall Street, Walthamstow, Essex, the only child of Albert Henry Adams (1900–1975), a London Transport clerk, and his wife, Elizabeth Winifred Rose, née Humphries (1906–2000). The family moved shortly afterwards to ...
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Adams, Norman Edward Albert (1927–2005), artist
Magdalen Evans
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Bales, Peter (bap. 1547, d. 1610?), writing-master and calligrapher
Lucy Peltz
Bales, Peter (bap. 1547, d. 1610
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Baskerville, John (1706–1775)
Maker: James Millar
John Baskerville (1706–1775) by James Millar, 1774 Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery
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Baskerville, John (1706–1775), printer and typefounder
James Mosley
Baskerville, John (1706–1775), printer and typefounder, was born at Sion Hill, Wolverley, near Kidderminster, Worcestershire, the son of John Baskervile (d. 1738) and his wife, Sara or Sarah; he was baptized at Wolverley on 28 January 1707. It is likely that the family were landowners and farmers in a small way. In later life ...
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Bawden, Edward (1903–1989)
Maker: Howard Coster
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Edward Bawden (1903–1989) by Howard Coster, 1946 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Bawden, Edward (1903–1989), painter and designer
David Gentleman
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Bawden, Edward (1903–1989), painter and designer, was born on 10 March 1903 in Braintree, Essex, the only child of Edward Bawden, a Braintree ironmonger of Cornish stock, and his wife, Eleanor Game, the daughter of a Suffolk gamekeeper. He went to Braintree high school...
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Beck, Henry Charles [Harry] (1902–1974), graphic artist and map designer
Elizabeth Baigent
Beck, Henry Charles [Harry] (1902–1974), graphic artist and map designer, was born on 4 June 1902 at 14 Wesley Road, Leyton, Essex, the second child and only son of Joshua Try Beck, variously described as a commercial traveller, and an artist and monumental mason, and ...
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Bedford, Francis (1799–1883), bookbinder
W. Y. Fletcher
revised by Amanda Girling-Budd
Bedford, Francis (1799–1883), bookbinder, was born at Paddington, Middlesex, on 18 June 1799. His father is believed to have been a courier attached to the establishment of George III. At an early age he was sent to a school in Yorkshire, and on his return to ...
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Bloch, Martin (1883–1954), painter and graphic artist
Jutta Vinzent
Bloch, Martin (1883–1954), painter and graphic artist, was born on 16 November 1883 in Neisse, Upper Silesia, the younger of two children of Maximilian Bloch (1852–1932), a textile factory owner, and his wife, Margarete, née Mosse (d. 1942), who died in a concentration camp in ...
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Bowtell [Boudle], John (1753–1813), bookbinder and philanthropist
Elisabeth Leedham-Green
Bowtell [Boudle], John (1753–1813), bookbinder and philanthropist, the third son of Joseph Boudle (c.1722–1757) and his wife, Margery (c.1720–1780), was born on 1 August 1753, and baptized John Boudle on 15 September 1753 at Holy Trinity Church in Cambridge...
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Caslon the younger, William (1720–1778)
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Caslon, William, the elder (1692–1766), typefounder
James Mosley
Caslon, William, the elder (1692–1766), typefounder, was born at Cradley, Worcestershire, the son of George Caslon (d. 1709), shoemaker, of nearby Halesowen, and Mary Steven. George was the son of William Castledowne, also a shoemaker of Halesowen, and an earlier form of the family surname, recorded in ...
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Caslon, William, the elder (1692–1766)
Maker: John Faber junior
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William Caslon the elder (1692–1766) by John Faber junior (after Francis Kyte, 1740) © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Cattaneo, Ambrogio Antonio [Tony] (1927–2003), animator
Anne Pimlott Baker
Cattaneo, Ambrogio Antonio [Tony] (1927–2003), animator, was born on 15 February 1927 at 53 Hamilton Road, West Norwood, London, the son of Dante Cattaneo, a chef at the Savoy Hotel, originally from Gravedona, near Como, Italy, then living at 41 Burton Street, Euston Road, London...
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Chabot, Charles (bap. 1815, d. 1882), graphologist
T. F. Henderson
revised by John D. Haigh
Chabot, Charles (bap. 1815, d. 1882), graphologist, was born in Battersea, Surrey, and baptized on 19 March 1815 at St Mary's, Battersea, the second of the three children of Charles Chabot, a lithographer, and his wife, Amy (or Amey), née Pearson; the family was Huguenot. He began as a lithographer in ...
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Cocker, Edward (1631/2–1676), calligrapher and arithmetician
Ruth Wallis
Cocker, Edward (1631/2–1676), calligrapher and arithmetician, is sometimes said to have come from Northamptonshire but this is unsubstantiated. Nothing is known of his parentage and early life. He published five copybooks in 1657; one, The Pen's Triumph, mentions an earlier Pen's Experience, now untraced, as his first work. By 1657 he was married, and teaching writing and arithmetic in ...
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Cockerell, Douglas Bennett (1870–1945), bookbinder
Alan Crawford
Cockerell, Douglas Bennett (1870–1945), bookbinder, was born on 5 August 1870 at Clifton Cottage, Sydenham Hill, London, the fourth child of Sydney John Cockerell (1842–1877), coal merchant, and his wife, Alice Elizabeth (d. 1900), elder daughter of Sir John Bennett, watchmaker and politician. He came from a middle-class family, but the death of his father threw them on hard times. ...
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Cockerell, Sydney Morris (1906–1987), bookbinder
David McKitterick
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Cockerell, Sydney Morris (1906–1987), bookbinder, was born on 6 June 1906 at 96 Earls Court Road, London, the second of three children and elder son of Douglas Bennett Cockerell (1870–1945), bookbinder, and his wife, Florence Margaret Drew (c.1870–1912), daughter of Samuel Drew Arundel...
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Cockerell, Sydney Morris (1906–1987)
Maker: Philip Sayer
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Sydney Morris Cockerell (1906–1987) by Philip Sayer, 1981 [using his ram to impress a design by Joan Rix Tebbutt on vellum] photograph by Philip Sayer
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Crosby, Theo (1925–1994)
Maker: George Newson
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Theo Crosby (1925–1994) by George Newson, 1992 © George Newson / Lebrecht Music & Arts; collection National Portrait Gallery, London
