Chronology
1860s | 1863 Ernest Barnsley born in Birmingham. 1864 Ernest Gimson born in Leicester. 1865 Sidney Barnsley born in Birmingham. | 1861 Formation of William Morris’s firm – Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Company | |
1870s | 1870 Peter Waals born in The Hague | 1877 Morris gave his first public lecture | |
1880s | 1884 Gimson met William Morris in Leicester 1886 Gimson went to London to complete his architectural training with J D Sedding | 1884 Art Workers’ Guild set up 1887 Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society set up, first exhibition held in 1888 1888 Guild and School of Handicraft set up by C R Ashbee in London’s East End | 1881 Leicester Secular Hall opened 1881 Democratic Federation founded – Morris joins in 1883 1887 Bloody Sunday demonstration in London |
1890s | 1890 Gimson learns chairmaking from Philip Clissett and plasterwork from Whitcombe and Priestly 1890 Kenton and Company founded 1893 Gimson and the Barnsleys move to the Cotswolds 1894 Gimson and the Barnsleys settle at Pinbury Park 1898 Gimson designed Stoneywell and Lea Cottages in the Charnwood Forest | 1896 William Morris died 1896 Central School of Arts and Crafts founded 1897 John Paul Cooper set up a studio workshop in London 1899 George P Bankart joined the Bromsgrove Guild | 1899-1902 Boer War |
1900s | 1900 Gimson married Emily Ann Thompson 1901 Gimson went into short-lived partnership with Ernest Barnsley and set up workshops at Daneway House. Peter Waals appointed foreman-manager 1903 Gimson moved into the house he designed at Sapperton 1907 Norman Jewson became Gimson’s architectural assistant. 1907 Exhibition of Gimson’s work at Debenham and Freebody’s, London | 1900 Benjamin Fletcher appointed head of Leicester School of Art 1902 C R Ashbee’s Guild of Handicraft moved to Chipping Campden, Glos. 1907 German designers, Josef Hoffman and Peter Behrens, founded the Deutsche Werkbund 1907 Harry Peach set up Dryad 1908 Guild of Handicraft dissolved as a limited company | 1901 Death of Queen Victoria, succeeded by Edward VII |
1910s | 1919 Death of Gimson | 1910 John Paul Cooper built his house and workshop in Kent 1915 Design and Industries Association founded by W R Lethaby, Harry Peach, Harold Stabler and others | 1914-18 World War I |
1920s | 1920 Peter Waals set up workshop at Chalford 1926 death of Ernest and Sidney Barnsley |