1. Caroline Charlotte Townshend was a British stained glass artist of the Arts and Crafts Movement.
19 Facts About Caroline Townshend
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Caroline Townshend trained at Slade School of Fine Art and Central School of Arts and Crafts before becoming a pupil of Christopher Whall.
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Caroline Townshend designed and made many stained glass windows, particularly for churches and cathedrals and set up the stained glass firm of Townshend and Howson in 1920 with her student and apprentice, Joan Howson.
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Caroline Charlotte Townshend was born on 4 September 1878 to Chambre Corker Townshend and Emily Gibson, at 21 Endsleigh Street the fourth of five children Her father had trained as an architect and was for a while an assistant to George Edmund Street.
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Caroline Townshend's mother, Emily Gibson had been the first applicant to the College for Women, at Cambridge and was a student there from 1869 to 1872.
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Caroline Townshend met her husband through Isabella Townshend, a fellow student at the College for Women.
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Emily later wrote "Chambrey Townshend had little push and no business ability to back up his remarkable artistic abilities" and the family lived abroad for some time as it was cheaper.
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Caroline Townshend was educated at the Slade School of Fine Art.
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Caroline Townshend assisted in his studio and attended his classes at the Central School of Arts and Crafts until 1903.
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Caroline Townshend set up her own studio at The Glass House in Fulham, South-West London in 1903.
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Caroline Townshend was member of the Fabian Society, a democratic socialist organisation, and in 1910 was a candidate of the Labour Party for the Board of Guardians in Fulham, London.
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In 1918, Caroline Townshend designed banners for the Fabian Society, executed by 19 women, and for the Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association.
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Works that Caroline Townshend completed before forming the partnership Caroline Townshend and Howson, with Joan Howson include:.
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The chapel of All Saints in this church has two twin-light windows by Caroline Townshend dating from 1907.
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Caroline Townshend is followed by the actor-manager Charles Charrington, Aylmer Maude, G Stirling Taylor, and the dentist F Lawson Dodd.
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Caroline Townshend completed a four-light east window depicting The Virgin and Child and "Christ in Majesty" surrounded by various Saints including James the Great, Andrew and James the Less.
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Caroline Townshend completed another window on the north side of the church.
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Caroline Townshend chose Townshend, who designed five windows for the cathedral's apse.
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Caroline Townshend's work was included in an exhibition organised by the William Morris Gallery in 1985 to celebrate the contribution of women to the art of stained glass.