biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1872–1944)
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| biography:
| Calligrapher, born in Uruguay of Scottish parents. He studied at Edinburgh. Instead of practising medicine, for which he had trained, he taught himself the art of lettering, and began to teach others. He taught at the Central School of Fine Arts and Crafts, London (1899–1913), where one of his students was Eric Gill; he also taught at the Royal College of Art. His books, Writing and Illuminating, and Lettering (1906) and Manuscript and Inscription Letters (1909), were landmarks in the revival and development of calligraphy. |
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