biography
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Ashbee, Charles Robert
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| male
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| lived:
| (1863–1942)
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| biography:
| Designer, architect, and writer, born in Isleworth, W Greater London, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and was founder and director of the Guild of Handicraft (1888–1908) in London's East End (later in Gloucestershire), employing over 100 craftworkers, the largest-scale attempt to put into practice the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement. As an architect he specialized in church restoration, and he was also a noted silversmith. |
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