Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell (1867-1962) was a British museum curator, collector, and well-connected figure in the literary world. 1867 (MDCCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... A curator of a cultural heritage institution (e. ...

He made his way initially as clerk in the coal business, until he met John Ruskin. According to John Ruskin by Tim Hilton (p.816) , around 1887 Cockerell sent Ruskin some sea shells, which he collected. At that time he had already met William Morris. Cockerell tried to patch up a quarrel between Ruskin and Octavia Hill (Hilton p. 832), who had been a friend of his late father Sydney John Cockerell, and godmother to his sister Olive. Upper: Steel-plate engraving of Ruskin as a young man, made circa 1845, scanned from print made circa 1895. ... The hard, rigid outer calcium carbonate covering of certain animals is called a shell. ... William Morris, socialist and innovator in the Arts and Crafts movement William Morris, publisher Davids Charge to Solomon (1882), a stained-glass window by Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris in Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts. ... Octavia Hill (Wisbech, 1838 - 1912) was an English social reformer, particularly concerned with the welfare of the inhabitants of cities, specifically London, in the second half of the 19th century. ...

From 1891 he gained a more solid entry to intellectual circles, working for the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. The architect Detmar Blow was a friend (Hilton p.843). He acted as private secretary to William Morris, becoming a major collector of Kelmscott Press books; was secretary also to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt; and was Thomas Hardy's executor. He was on friendly terms with Charlotte Mew, Viola Meynell, and T. H. White. The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) was founded by William Morris in 1877, to oppose what he saw as the insensitive renovation of ancient buildings then occurring in Victorian England. ... This page is about William Morris the writer, designer and socialist. ... Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922) was a British poet and writer. ... Thomas Hardy For other people called Thomas Hardy, see Thomas Hardy (disambiguation) Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was a novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement, who delineated characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. ... Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) was an English poet. ... Viola Meynell (1885 – 1956) was an English writer; her married name was Dallyn. ... Terence Hanbury White (May 29, 1906 - January 17, 1964) was a writer. ...

From 1908 to 1937 he was Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, in Cambridge. The main entrance to the Fitzwilliam Museum, facing Trumpington Sreet. ...

He appears in the play The Best of Friends, where he is one of a circle of three figures (George Bernard Shaw and Dame Laurentia McLachlan being the other 2) whose letters are dramatised. This was produced on stage at the Hampstead Theatre in 2006 [1] and on TV in 1991 [2]. George Bernard Shaw (George) Bernard Shaw[1] (July 26, 1856 – November 2, 1950) was an Irish-British playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925 and an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay in 1938 for Pygmalion. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Family

The bee expert Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1866–1948), who settled in the USA, was his brother, as was the book binder Douglas Bennett Cockerell (1870-1945). The inventor Christopher Cockerell was his son, as was the book binder Sydney Maurice Cockerell. Christopher Sydney Cockerell (June 4, 1910 – June 1, 1999) was a British engineer, inventor of the hovercraft. ...

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