Henry Wilson (12 March 1864 – 7 March 1934) was a British architect, jeweller and designer.
Careeredit
He was born at 91 Red Rock Street in West Derby near Liverpool on 12 March 1864. He studied at the Kidderminster School of Art before being articled to the architect Edward James Shrewsbury in Maidenhead. He then worked and was trained in the practices of John Oldrid Scott, John Belcher and J. D. Sedding.
After Sedding's death in 1891 Wilson completed many of Sedding's schemes. He followed Sedding's ideals, but his designs were often more original and grander in scale.
From about 1895 Wilson designed metalwork, church plate and furnishings, jewellery and sculpture, becoming a gifted craftsman in the Arts and Crafts Movement. He was in business at 17 Vicarage Gate, Kensington, London from 1896 to 1899. In 1892 he joined the Art Workers Guild.
In 1901 he married Margaret Ellinor Morse, the daughter of Francis Morse, Vicar of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham. They had three daughters, Fiammetta, Pernel (later known as the violinist Orrea Pernell, 1906–1993),[3] and Dione (later known as the television chef Dione Lucas) and one son, Guthlac.[4]
In 1922 he emigrated to Paris with his wife, and after her death 1931 he moved to Menton. Wilson died in Menton on 7 March 1934.
Architectural worksedit
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Pendant ca. 1908 in the Indianapolis Museum of Art
Referencesedit
^"WILSON, Henry (1864-1934)". AIM25. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
^"The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951. Glasgow University. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
^Obituary, Orrea Pernel, The Independent, 22 October, 2011
^Collins, Kathleen. Watching What We Eat: The Evolution of Television Cooking Shows (2009)
^Manton, Cyndy. Henry Wilson: Practical Idealist[permanent dead link], The Lutterworth Press (2009), ISBN 978-0-7188-3097-7.
^Paul Bell. 'Saint Augustine of Canterbury, Highate: an illustrated history' (London: St Augustine's Highgate, 2012), online resource (PDF), accessed 1 April 2017
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Bibliographyedit
Manton, Cyndy. Henry Wilson: Practical Idealist[permanent dead link], The Lutterworth Press (2009), ISBN 978-0-7188-3097-7.
Thomas, John. "The Elphinstone monument at King's College Aberdeen. Its construction in the sixteenth century and reconstruction (1909-31) by Henry Wilson", Aberdeen University Review, Vol. LIV, 4, No. 188 Autumn 1992, pp. 315–333.
Thomas, John. "The Spirits about the throne. Henry Wilson's Elphinstone monument, Aberdeen", in Happiness, Truth & Holy Images. Essays of Popular Theology and Religion & Art, Wolverhampton, Twin Books, 2019, pp. 51–56.
External linksedit
http://www.henrywilson.eu Archived 30 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine