Eric Gill
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Arthur Eric Rowton Gill was an English sculptor, letter cutter, typeface designer, and printmaker. Although the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Gill as "the greatest artist-craftsman
Self-portrait, c. 1927
Rubbing of a memorial bronze created by Eric and Max Gill in 1905
Sopers, Gill's home in Ditchling
Mother and Child, 1910
Fabian Society
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The Fabian Society is a British socialist organisation whose purpose is to advance the principles of social democracy and democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist effort in democracies, rathe
Eric Gill
…inscriptions for buildings and headstones. He also began designing chapter headings and title pages for books. As a young man, Gill was a member of the Fabian Society, but later resigned. Initially identifying with the Arts and Crafts Movement, by 1907 he was lecturing and campaigning against the movement's perceived…
The Fabian Society was named after "Fabius the Delayer" at the suggestion of Frank Podmore (above)
Blue plaque at 17 Osnaburgh St, where the Society was founded in 1884
Nigerian Fabian Society, 1944.