"edition of the show in Wimbledon. Since discovering the bible the Negus family had been able to trace its ancestors back to the 1700s. Arthur Negus Arthur George Negus, OBE (29 March 1903 – 5 April 1985) was a British television personality and antiques expert, specialising in furniture. Negus was born in Reading, Berkshire, England, to Amy Julia Worsley and father Arthur George Negus Sr, a cabinet maker. His family has had a long history in the antiques business. Negus was educated at Reading School and began running the family business when he was 17, following the death of his"
"Humphrey Llwyd Humphrey Llwyd (also spelled Lhuyd) (1527–1568) was a Welsh cartographer, author, antiquary and Member of Parliament. He was a leading member of the Renaissance period in Wales along with other such men as Thomas Salisbury and William Morgan. His library, together with those of his patron, the Earl of Arundel and his brother-in-law, Lord Lumley, formed the basis of the Royal Collection of books; currently housed at the British Library. His motto was ""Hwy pery klod na golyd"" (""Fame lasts longer than wealth""). Llwyd was born at Foxhall, his family's estate in Denbigh, the county seat of the"
"Peter Reading Peter Reading (27 July 1946 – 17 November 2011) was an English poet and the author of 26 collections of poetry. He is known for his choice of ugly subject matter, and use of classical metres. ""The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry"" describes his verse as ""strongly anti-romantic, disenchanted and usually satirical"". Interviewed by Robert Potts, he described his work as a combination of ""painstaking care"" and ""misanthropy"". Reading was educated at Alsop High School. After studying painting at Liverpool College of Art, he worked as a schoolteacher in Liverpool (1967–68) and at Liverpool College of Art, where"
"John Russell Smith John Russell Smith (1810–1894), known as Russell Smith, was an English bookseller and bibliographer. He is best known for his ""Library of Old Authors"" reprint series. He was born at Sevenoaks, Kent, and was apprenticed to John Bryant of Wardour Street, London. He took a shop at 4 Old Compton Street, Soho, and concentrated on English topography and philology. Among his supporters was John Sheepshanks, the collector. In 1842 there was a rift in the Archæological Association. One section of its members, including Thomas Wright, Mark Anthony Lower, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, and Arthur Henfrey, transferred their publications"
"Jonty Hearnden Jonathan Philip ""Jonty"" Hearnden (born 28 November 1960 in Brentwood, Essex) is an English antiques expert and television presenter. Though born in London Road, Brentwood (his parents owned a toy shop and a gentlemen's outfitters in Shenfield until shortly after his birth), he was brought up in Dorchester-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. Hearnden was educated at Shiplake College, an independent school in Shiplake, near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. Hearnden was diagnosed with dyslexia at an early age. Jonty Hearnden began working with Bonhams Auctioneers London in 1979 as a furniture cataloguer. His further career included management of Lots Road Galleries, an"
"27 August In 1874, as the fruit of his researches, Bailey published a life of Thomas Fuller, which gained him admission to the Society of Antiquaries of London, and he was a contributor to the earliest volumes of the ""Dictionary of National Biography"". His collection of Fuller's sermons, completed and edited by W. E. A. Axon, was published in 1891. His other works included: He edited reprints of ""Manchester Al Mondo"", 1880; John Dee's ""Diary"", 1880; and John Byrom's ""Journal"", 1882. Attribution John Eglington Bailey John Eglington Bailey (1840–1888) was an English antiquary. Born at Edgbaston, Birmingham, on 13 February"
"1813. In 1791 Coates issued proposals for ""The History and Antiquities of Reading""; it appeared in 1802, and was followed, seven years later, by a ""Supplement"" with corrections. He used in particular notes of John Loveday. He also collected material for a continuation of John Le Neve's ""Lives of the Protestant Bishops"", which he presented to Alexander Chalmers for use in his ""General Biographical Dictionary"". Attribution Charles Coates (priest) Charles Coates (c. 1746–1813) was an English cleric and antiquarian. The son of John Coates, a watchmaker in the City of London, he was born at Reading, Berkshire in or about"
"Herbert Read Sir Herbert Edward Read, DSO, MC (; 4 December 1893 – 12 June 1968) was an English art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopher, best known for numerous books on art, which included influential volumes on the role of art in education. Read was co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. As well as being a prominent English anarchist, he was one of the earliest English writers to take notice of existentialism. The son of a farmer, Read was born at Muscoates near Nunnington, about four miles south of Kirkbymoorside in the North Riding of Yorkshire. His studies"
"biography. He was one of the editors of the second edition of Raphael Holinshed's ""Chronicles"", published in 1587. His last, unpublished and probably uncompleted work was the first topographical description of the county of Devon. He founded a guild of Merchant Adventurers under a charter from Queen Mary. He was the uncle of Richard Hooker, the influential Anglican theologian. Hooker was born at Bourbridge Hall in Exeter, Devon, England. He was the second son and eventual heir of Robert Vowell (d.1538) of Exeter ""alias"" Hooker by his third wife Agnes Dobell (or Doble), daughter of John Dobell of Woodbridge in"
"Peter Philp Denis Alfred Peter Philp (10 November 1920 - 5 February 2006), was a Welsh dramatist and antiques expert, best known for his television series, ""Collectors' Club"". Philp was born in Cardiff, and attended Penarth grammar school, but opted to enter the family antiques business, A. T. Philp & Sons, instead of going to university. The premises were in Cardiff's Royal Arcade, where they remained until 1968. He served in the RAF during the Second World War, and married Pamela Ayton in 1940. They had two sons. In the meantime, he continued to write plays, as he had done"
"Christopher Gibbs Christopher Henry Gibbs (29 July 1938 – 28 July 2018) was a British antiques dealer and collector who was also an influential figure in men's fashion and interior design in 1960s London. He has been credited with inventing Swinging London, and has been called the ""King of Chelsea"" and ""London's most famous antiques dealer"". The ""New York Times"" described him as a ""man of infinite taste, judgment and experience, the one who introduced a whole generation to the distressed bohemian style of interior design."" Gibbs was the fifth son of Hon. Sir Geoffrey Cokayne Gibbs KCMG and his"
"of 1769.' 3. 'Accounts of the Sale of Shakespeare's House in 1847, of the subsequent Purchases made by the Public at Stratford-on-Avon, and of the Perkins Folio Controversy.' George Daniel (writer) George Daniel (1789–1864) was an English author of miscellaneous works and book collector. Daniel was born on 16 September 1789, descended from Paul Danieli, a Huguenot who settled in England in the seventeenth century. His father died when he was eight years old. After receiving an education at Thomas Hogg's boarding school in Paddington Green, he became clerk to a stockbroker in Tokenhouse Yard, and was engaged in commerce"
"thousands of objects from the ordinary lives of south Londoners in the 1800s, from theatre adverts and rail tickets, to cheap toys and good luck charms. His collection included thousands of ancient objects dug up by labourers building the canals, docks and railways that profoundly changed London in the 18th and 19th centuries. Born in 1817, Cuming was the second son of Richard Cuming Jr., and his wife Anne Warner (died 1853). Cuming lived with his parents and sister, Ann Bagwell Cuming (died 1893), first at 3 Dean's Row just off Walworth Road, and then 63 Kennington Park Road. Neither"
"in London, a position he held for some 20 years. This was a church with a strong musical tradition, and one of the first to be furnished with an organ after the Restoration. In 1727 he became organist of the combined churches of St Mary Woolnoth and St Mary Woolchurch Haw in the City of London. In addition he took up the post of organist at St Dunstan's-in-the-West. He was an early member of the Royal Society of Musicians. He died in London. His portrait hangs in the Dulwich College Art Gallery. Reading was a notable organist, composer and teacher,"
"in a way unequalled by any other source. The popularity of ‘history from below’, and academic interest in working-class autobiographies, have established ""When I was a Child"" as not only an essential source for Potteries history, but also a classic of its kind and a memorial to its otherwise obscure author. Charles Shaw (potter) Charles Shaw (1832 – 5 March 1906) was an English potter, born in Tunstall, Staffordshire. He is notable for his autobiography (""When I was a Child""), published by Methuen in March 1903 under the name ""An Old Potter"". Shaw was a staunch Liberal and believer in"
"in a collection which was completed by Daniel Roseingrave. He also composed songs, theatre music, and part of a set of responses (now in the Anglican church repertoire in a form completed by modern editors). He died in Winchester. John Reading (composer and organist) John Reading (c. 1645–1692) was an English composer and organist, and father of John Reading (c. 1685 – 1764) who is remembered as an important music copyist. Little of Reading’s life is known. He was born in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, and became Master of the Choristers at Lincoln Cathedral in 1670, and in 1675 at Chichester Cathedral"
"Robert Vaughan (antiquary) Robert Powell Vaughan (?1592 – 16 May 1667) was an eminent Welsh antiquary and collector of manuscripts. His collection, later known as the Hengwrt–Peniarth Library from the houses in which it was successively preserved, formed the nucleus of the National Library of Wales, and is still in its care. Vaughan was born at Gwengraig, Dolgellau, around 1592. Very little is known of his early life, but he was recorded as entering Oriel College, Oxford in 1612, though he left without taking his degree. He later settled at the mansion of Hengwrt (), Llanelltyd, also near Dolgellau, which"
"auction room in London. In 1990 he started as an antiques dealer through his business, Dorchester Antiques, in Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. , Hearnden has appeared on the following TV shows (all BBC): Jonty Hearnden Jonathan Philip ""Jonty"" Hearnden (born 28 November 1960 in Brentwood, Essex) is an English antiques expert and television presenter. Though born in London Road, Brentwood (his parents owned a toy shop and a gentlemen's outfitters in Shenfield until shortly after his birth), he was brought up in Dorchester-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. Hearnden was educated at Shiplake College, an independent school in Shiplake, near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. Hearnden was"
"the Riviera, dying in Rapallo, Italy on 11 February 1929. He was buried in the Cimitero Urbano. Charles Hercules Read Sir Charles Hercules Read, FBA (6 July 1857 – 11 February 1929) was a British archaeologist and curator who became Keeper of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography at the British Museum, and President of the London Society of Antiquaries, following his mentor Augustus Wollaston Franks in the first position in 1896, and in the second from 1908–14 and again in 1919, after being Secretary since 1892. He began periods as President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain"
"bill at the ""Royal Variety Performance"" at the London Palladium. In 1959 he appeared with comedian Jimmy Clitheroe in the Royal Northern Variety Performance, in the presence of the Queen Mother, at the Palace Theatre, Manchester. The introduction to his radio show was usually ""Al Read: introducing us to ourselves""; and he himself described his work as ""pictures of life"". Surviving editions held by the BBC Sound Archive: Al Read Al Read (3 March 1909 – 9 September 1987) was a British radio comedian active throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Read was born in Broughton, Salford, Lancashire and was a"
"in a poor state of repair. It has many Arts and Crafts features and original fittings, including some Gimson works. The pottery studio is a long thatched roofed building used by the Powells in their pottery design business, and to train local workers for Wedgwood. Alfred Powell edited the memorial volume to his friend Ernest Gimson, ""Ernest Gimson: his life and work"" (1924), with contributions by William Richard Lethaby and F.L. Griggs. Alfred Hoare Powell Alfred Hoare Powell (1865–1960) was an English Arts and Crafts architect, and designer and painter of pottery. Alfred Powell was born in Reading, Berkshire, on"
"of his journey was published: While at Dublin he published two books: Attribution Frederick William Burbidge Frederick William Thomas Burbidge (1847 in Wymeswold, Leicestershire, England – 1905 in Dublin, Ireland) was a British explorer who collected many rare tropical plants for the famous Veitch Nurseries. Burbidge was born at Wymeswold, Leicestershire, on 21 March 1847, was son of Thomas Burbidge, a farmer and fruit-grower. Burbridge entered the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society at Chiswick as a student in 1868, and proceeded in the same year to the Royal Gardens, Kew. Here he showed skill as a draughtsman and was"
"dashed into the house to find his friend, who had shot himself, dying. Reading was reported to have suffered from palsy, but it was more likely to have been epilepsy. It was said to have been caused by the Vox Humana stop on the organ at St Mary Woolnoth! John Reading (composer, organist and copyist) John Reading (c. 1685/86 – 2 September 1764) was an English composer, organist and copyist (his name, like the town, is pronounced ""Redding""a spelling variant of his name which occurs in several documents). His greatest importance lies in his work as a transcriber, arranger, and"
"George Gissing George Robert Gissing (; 22 November 1857 – 28 December 1903) was an English novelist who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. Gissing also worked as a teacher and tutor throughout his life. He published his first novel, ""Workers in the Dawn"", in 1880. His best known novels, which are published in modern editions, include ""The Nether World"" (1889), ""New Grub Street"" (1891), and ""The Odd Women"" (1893). Gissing was born on 22 November 1857 in Wakefield, Yorkshire, the eldest of five children of Thomas Waller Gissing, who ran a chemist's shop, and Margaret (née Bedford). His"
"Richard Llewellyn Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd (8 December 1906 – 30 November 1983), known by his pen name Richard Llewellyn (), was a British novelist. Llewellyn was born of Welsh parents in Hendon, Middlesex, in 1906. Only after his death was it discovered that his claim that he was born in St Davids, West Wales, was false. In the U.S., Llewellyn won the National Book Award for favourite novel of 1940, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association. He lived a peripatetic life, travelling widely throughout his life. Before World War II, he spent periods working in hotels,"
"Burnet Reading Burnet Reading (1749–1838) was an English engraver and draughtsman. Reading was a native of Colchester, and practised in London. He worked entirely for the booksellers, engraving chiefly portraits of contemporary celebrities, many of which appeared in Bell's ""British Theatre,"" 1776–86, and the ""European Magazine,"" 1783–93. Reading engraved a set of six portraits of members of the Royal Academy, from drawings by Peter Falconet and another of members of the American Congress, 1783; also some of the plates to Boydell's ""Shakespeare,"" and a few fancy subjects, such as ""Lavinia and her Mother,"" after W. Bigg, and ""Charlotte at the"
"attended the moral philosophy lectures of Thomas Brown. Meadley published also: To the ""Monthly Repository"" he contributed lives of Ann Jebb, Robert Clark the Sunderland surgeon, and Robert Waugh, vicar of Bishop Middleham; also some verse, ""The Little Chimney Sweeper"" (1818). Attribution George William Meadley George William Meadley (1774–1818) was an English merchant, known as a biographer. Meadley was born at Sunderland, County Durham, on 1 January 1774, an only son; his father died in 1775, and his mother soon afterwards moved with her five children to the adjoining town of Bishop Wearmouth. In 1783 he was placed at the"
"Joseph Gillow Joseph Gillow (5 October 1850 in Preston, Lancashire – 17 March 1921 in Westholme, Hale) was an English Roman Catholic antiquary and bio-bibliographer, ""the Plutarch of the English Catholics"". Born to a recusant English Roman Catholic family, Joseph Gillow was educated at St Cuthbert's College, Ushaw. In 1878 he married Ella McKenna, a brewer's daughter, securing him a private income allowing him to pursue his antiquarian interests. Gillow published various researches into the history of Roman Catholicism in Lancashire, but his greatest achievement was the ""Biographical and Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics"" (5 vols, 1885-1902). To fit"
"in an age and country that loved them so little"". Richard de Bury Richard de Bury (24 January 1287 – 14 April 1345), also known as Richard Aungerville or Aungervyle, was an English priest, teacher, bishop, writer, and bibliophile. He was a patron of learning and one of the first English collectors of books. He is chiefly remembered for his ""Philobiblon"", written to inculcate in the clergy the pursuit of learning and the love of books. The ""Philobiblon"" is considered one of the earliest books to discuss librarianship in-depth. Richard de Bury was born near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, the"
"Francis Peck Francis Peck (1692–1743) was an English antiquary, best known for his ""Desiderata Curiosa"" (1732–1735). He was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, and educated at Stamford School. Peck was educated at Charterhouse School, before continuing on to St John's College, Cambridge. He was elected to the Society of Antiquarians in 1732 and corresponded with many of the leading antiquaries and historians of the age; including Thomas Hearne, Browne Willis, Roger and Samuel Gale, and William Stukeley. His major publication is the ""Desiderata Curiosa"", a two-volume miscellany (published 1732–1735). There is an engraved frontispiece portrait of Peck (by R. Collins,"
"a parish priest in England and in Wales, and wrote some works such as a ""Short Account of Holyhead in the Isle of Anglesea"" (1783). His collection of books, manuscripts, maps and prints took five days to sell after his death. John Price (librarian) John Price (1735–1813) was a Welsh librarian and Anglican priest, who was in charge of the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford for 45 years. Price was born on 1 March 1735 in Llandegla, Denbighshire, Wales, where his father was the rector. He was educated in Llangollen (his father having become the vicar there in"
"together about the experience. The book was published pseudonymously; their identity was not revealed until the mid-1920s, after Jourdain's death. The book was a best seller but attracted much criticism. Jourdain was in Rome in 1912 with the family of Joan Evans, the art historian, and Evans remained loyal to Jourdain thereafter. She died of a sudden heart attack in 1924 after being forced to resign her post at St Hugh's College over an administrative decision, leaving Evans as her residuary legatee. Born in Ashbourne, Derbyshire on 16 November 1863, Jourdain's father was Francis Jourdain (1834–1898), a vicar and her"
"Rolling"", was published in 1983. Diaries Anthony Powell Anthony Dymoke Powell ( ; 21 December 1905 – 28 March 2000) was an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume work ""A Dance to the Music of Time"", published between 1951 and 1975. Powell's major work has remained in print continuously and has been the subject of TV and radio dramatisations. In 2008, ""The Times"" newspaper named Powell among their list of ""The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"". Powell was born in Westminster, Middlesex, the son of Philip Lionel William Powell and Maud Mary Wells-Dymoke. His father was an officer"