Edward Gordon Craig
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Edward Henry Gordon Craig, was an English modernist theatre practitioner; Part of the Terry family and son of the actress Ellen Terry, he worked as an actor in his youth before becoming a director and
Craig before 1903
Craig's mother, Ellen Terry, ca. 1880
Craig as Hamlet, Olympic Theatre, 1897
Craig's daughter, Nelly Gordon, with Ellen Terry in her garden, ca. 1918
Edward William Godwin
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Edward William Godwin was a progressive English architect-designer, who began his career working in the strongly polychromatic "Ruskinian Gothic" style of mid-Victorian Britain, inspired by The Stones
Edward Gordon Craig
…The Gordon Craig Theatre, built in Stevenage, England (the town of his birth), was named in his honour in 1975. The illegitimate son of the architect Edward Godwin and the actress Ellen Terry, Craig was born Edward, after his father, on 16 January 1872 in Railway Street, Stevenage, in Hertfordshire, England…
Northampton Guildhall, built 1861–64, displays Godwin's "Ruskinian Gothic" style
Design, 1872 (V&A Museum no. E.515-1963)
Sideboard of 1867–70 (V&A Museum no. CIRC.38:1 to 5-1953)