The Home Arts and Industries Association was part of the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain. It was founded in 1884 by Eglantyne Louisa Jebb, mother of Save the Children founders, Dorothy Buxton and Eglantyne Jebb and Louisa Wilkins who helped...
Eglantyne Louisa Jebb (née Jebb; 1845/1846 – 6 November 1925) was an Anglo-Irish social reformer. A keen supporter of the Arts and Crafts movement, in 1884 she founded the Home Arts and Industries Association as a way of reviving country crafts and...
The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and North America....
The Design and Industries Association (DIA) is a charity in the United Kingdom whose object is to engage with all those who share a common interest in the contribution that design can make to the delivery of goods and services that are sustainable...
Eglantyne Jebb (25 August 1876 – 17 December 1928) was an English social reformer. She founded the Save the Children organisation at the end of World War I to relieve the effects of famine in Austria-Hungary and Germany. She drafted the document...
The Watts Cemetery Chapel or Watts Mortuary Chapel is a chapel in a Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style) version of Celtic Revival in the village cemetery of Compton in Surrey. The designer was Mary Fraser Tytler, an artist resident in the...
Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (27 August 1841 – 9 December 1905) was a British classical scholar and MP for Cambridge.
Percival Arland Ussher (9 September 1899 – 24 December 1980) was an Anglo-Irish academic, essayist and translator. Ussher was born in Battersea, London, the only child of Emily Jebb (born on the Lyth estate, Ellesmere, Shropshire in 1872) and...
The Compton Potters' Arts Guild was an art pottery, founded by and based at the Surrey home of Scottish artist, Mary Fraser Tytler.
Barbara Gillian Banister (1895–1984) was a British jewellery designer, silversmith and painter.