Person    | Female  Born 8/6/1895  Died 29/12/1991

Dora Gordine

Categories: Sculpture

Countries: Latvia

Born Latvia. First visited London in 1926. The Picture Source website provides a biography. Married Richard Hare and built, with him, Dorich House which is where she died and is now a museum.

For more information on this sculptor we suggest the book ‘Working Against the Grain: Women Sculptors in Britain c.1885-1950’ by Pauline Rose.

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Dora Gordine

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Oscar Nemon

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Albert Bruce-Joy

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One of Viscount Rothermere's three sons, of which the elder two died in WW1.

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Owen Owen

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Eva Leale

Eva Leale

The daughter of the landlord of The Swan public house at Walton-on-Thames. The composer Jerome Kern stopped at the pub while on a Thames river trip and fell in love with her. They married in Walton...

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World War 1

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403 memorials
J. Argent

J. Argent

Private in the K.O.S. Borderers. Andrew Behan has researched this man: Private John Argent was born in 1879 in Hampstead, a son of William Joseph Argent and Eliza Argent née Chandler. His father w...

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War dead, WW1
1 memorial