Aggas, Robert (c. 1620–c. 1682), landscape and scene painter, was the son of Samuel Agas of St Andrew's parish, Holborn. The family was originally from Stoke by Nayland in Suffolk. Samuel Agas was the son of Edward Aggas, a bookseller and printer, and relative of ...
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Aggas, Robert (c. 1620–c. 1682), landscape and scene painter
W. C. Monkhouse
revised by Arianne Burnette
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Beaton, Sir Cecil Walter Hardy (1904–1980)
Maker: Dorothy Wilding
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Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (1904–1980) by Dorothy Wilding, 1937 © Tom Hustler / National Portrait Gallery, London
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Beaton, Sir Cecil Walter Hardy (1904–1980), photographer and designer for screen and theatre
Hugo Vickers
Beaton, Sir Cecil Walter Hardy (1904–1980), photographer and designer for screen and theatre, was born at 21 Langland Gardens, Hampstead, London, on 14 January 1904, the eldest of the two sons and two daughters of Ernest Walter Hardy Beaton (1867–1936), timber merchant, and his wife, ...
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Betjeman, Sir John (1906–1984)
Maker: Sir Cecil Beaton
Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984) by Sir Cecil Beaton, 1955 © Cecil Beaton Archive, Sotheby's
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Betjeman, Sir John (1906–1984), poet, writer, and broadcaster courtier
Kingsley Amis
revised by M. Clare Loughlin-Chow
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Betjeman, Sir John (1906–1984), poet, writer, and broadcaster, was born on 28 August 1906 at 52 Parliament Hill Mansions, north London, the only child of Ernest Edward Betjemann (1872–1934), a furniture manufacturer, and his wife, Mabel Bessie Dawson (1879–1952). The family name, of Dutch or German origin, can be traced back to an immigration in the late eighteenth century. The poet adopted his style of it about the age of twenty-one....
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Beverly, William Roxby (1810?–1889), scene-painter
W. J. Lawrence
revised by C. D. Watkinson
Beverly, William Roxby (1810
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Bury, John (1925–2000), theatre designer
Alan Strachan
Bury, John (1925–2000), theatre designer, was born on 27 January 1925 at a nursing home in Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, the only son of Charles Rugeley Bury (1890–1968), an industrial and academic chemist, and his wife, Emily Frances Margaret Adams, a botanist. He had a happy childhood, and was encouraged by his parents to take an interest in many subjects. He was educated at ...
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Cane, Andrew (c. 1589–1656x61), goldsmith and actor
John H. Astington
Cane, Andrew (c. 1589–1656x61), goldsmith and actor, was the son of Robert Cane of Windsor, butcher; he may be the otherwise unnamed ‘Keane’, son of Robert Kene and Lucresia Andrews, who was baptized at the parish church of St John, Windsor, on 2 March 1589. He was apprenticed to ...
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Christmas family (per. c. 1610–c. 1640), sculptors, woodcarvers, and pageant artificers
Adam White
Christmas family (per. c. 1610–c. 1640), sculptors, woodcarvers, and pageant artificers, were active in London. Gerard Christmas (bap. 1576, d. 1634) was born into a family that lived on the eastern edge of the City of London and may have come from ...
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Christmas, Gerard (bap. 1576, d. 1634)
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Craig, (Edward Henry) Gordon (1872–1966), theatre director and designer and wood-engraver
James Hamilton
Craig, (Edward Henry) Gordon (1872–1966), theatre director and designer and wood-engraver, was born on 16 January 1872 in Railway Street, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, the only son and second child of the architect and radical Edward William Godwin (1833–1886) and the actress Ellen Alice Terry (1847–1928)...
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Craig, (Edward Henry) Gordon (1872–1966)
Maker: George Charles Beresford
(Edward Henry) Gordon Craig (1872–1966) by George Charles Beresford, 1911 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Gilchrist [married name Fitzmaurice], Constance Macdonald, countess of Orkney [Connie] (1865–1946)
Maker: W. & D. Downey
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Connie Gilchrist (1865–1946), by W. & D. Downey, 1886–1887
© National Portrait Gallery, London
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Gilchrist [married name Fitzmaurice], Constance Macdonald, countess of Orkney [Connie] (1865–1946), artist’s model, dancer, and actress
Eilidh Innes
Gilchrist [married name Fitzmaurice], Constance Macdonald, countess of Orkney [Connie] (1865–1946), artist’s model, dancer, and actress, was born at 18 Winchester Street, Agar Town, London, on 23 January 1865, the youngest of five daughters of David Gilchrist (1818–1868...
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Greenwood, Thomas (bap. 1752?, d. 1797), scene-painter
Catherine Haill
Greenwood, Thomas (bap. 1752
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Grossmith, (Walter) Weedon (1854–1919), artist and actor
See Grossmith, George
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Harker, Joseph Cunningham (1855–1927), scene painter and theatrical designer
B. A. Kachur
Harker, Joseph Cunningham (1855–1927), scene painter and theatrical designer, was born on 17 October 1855 in Levenshulme, Lancashire, the third of the three children of William Harker and his wife, Maria O'Connor. When Harker was three years old, his father, a well-known character actor in ...
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