biography
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Murray, William Staite
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1881–1962)
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| biography:
| British potter. He started work on a bulb plantation in The Netherlands and spent 10 years there, but returned to England in 1908. He learnt his craft as a potter at Camberwell School of Art, and began working as an individual potter at Yeoman's Row in South Kensington in 1919. He worked at Brockley in Kent and Bray in Windsor and Maidenhead, then started teaching at the Royal College, where he became head of the Pottery School in 1926. He taught pottery as a fine art medium, attributing to it the same importance as is usually given to painting and sculpture. He lived in Rhodesia from 1939. |
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