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                                  The lives of the Saffron Walden Though better known as a resident of Littlebury, A member of the notable Quaker family of Saffron Born in London in 1895, Gordon Jacob was educated Born at Braintree in 1903, Edward Bawden was Henry Winstanley was born in Saffron Walden in Walden, whose wealth was accumulated through at Dulwich College before enlisting in the Artillery at  ed ucated at the Frien ds’ School, Saffron W alden, and   residents commemorated by the March 1644. As a young man he worked at Audley brewing, banking, and land ownership, George Stacey the outbreak of the First World War. In 1917, he was the Cambridge School of Art before             End, first as a porter and then as a secretary, before Gibson was born in the town in July taken prisoner and was one of only 60 men who winning a scholarship to the town’s first six blue plaques span embarking on a grand tour of Europe which lasted  1818    and died in April 1893 after survived the conflict out of a battalion of 800men.  >=P:K=   Royal College of Art. Here, E ric    from the mid-16th to the beginning of nearly five years and stimulated a strong interest in @>HK@>LM:<>R a lifetime of public service, With the return of peacetime, he gained a place at the    ;:P=>G   Ravilious w as a fellow      architecture. On his return, Winstanley made a fine   @B;LHG    scholarship and philanthropy.    Royal College of Music to study composition, theory *2),&*212   stud ent and their talent was     the 21st century and are marked by a set of engravings of Audley End House, which took *1*1&*11, As well as being a town and conducting and, during his student years, =>LB@G>K%IKBGMF:D>K recognised by a commission I:BGM>K BEENLMK:MHK            10 years to complete and, from 1679  ;:GD>K%;HM:GBLM  councillor and alderman for     published the popular William Byrd  to paint a large mural at diversity of achievement that ranges to 1701, held the position of   :G=IABE:GMAKHIBLM   24 years and twice electe   !%.d Suite and arrangement of Ralph ebo^]a^k^*20)&*212   Morley College, Lond on from     A>GKR Audley End’s Clerk of Works, a ebo^]a^k^*1-.&*11, @HK=HG     Mayor, he was also treasurer       Vaughan Williams’ English    1928-9. By 1930, Baw den was   from the creative arts to scholarship, PBGLM:GE>R role in which he earned the  of the local British Schools for Folk Song Suite for full producing illustrations for C:GMHK:G=;NBE=>K Winstanley was well known Board of Guardians, and Chairman From 1924 until his    B ank, Twinings and Shell-Mex and in the early 1930’s     h_ma^_bklm           K in for his fascination of the Management Committee of the Saffron Walden :G=:KK:G@>K retirement in 1966, Jacob some of his most innovative work was commissioned >]]rlmhg^Eb`amahnl^                           [hkghgmabllbm^ with mechanical and hydraulic Hospital. He played a prominent part in bringing the ebo^]a^k^*2.2&*21- taught at the Royal College of by Fortnum and Mason and Imperial Airways. bg*/-- @:;KB>E The eldest son of a local rope- gadgets and had a house built   railway to Saffron W alden, took a keen interest in the   Music, where his personal  Following marriage in 1932, Bawden moved to Brick     A:KO>R maker, Gabriel Harvey was for him at Littlebury which was early development of electric light and photography teaching skills and influential  Hou se at Great Bardfield, Esse x. In addition to his    *.-.&*/,) born in Saffron Walden about filled with mechanisms of his own and as a distinguished botanist, was the author of the books on orchestration were highly commercial work, which included the design of “Flora of Essex”                   LK:G=IH>M College Cambridge in 1566 Wonders” became a local landmark which attracted a   the subject for m any years.      were among his pupils. He became a Fellow in 1946 Aldridge, he also developed h is watercolour     abliZk^gmZeahf^ and was elected fellow of number of distinguished visitors and, in the 1690’s, he   The Saffron W alden and North Essex Bank, of wh ich   and, throughout his career, also maintained a prolific  technique by painting local rural scenes. During the      Pembroke Hall in 1570. Here also opened a commercially successful Mathematical he was the founder, proved to be a profitable business output of original compositions and arrangements. Second World War he served as an official war artist,                       he formed a lasting friendship Water Theatre in London’s Piccadilly. Known as venture and, after his death in 1896, was joined with These included concertos, ballet scores for Sadler’s initially with the Bri tish army in France and then in with Edmund Spenser, author of The “Winstanley’s Water-works” it combined fireworks,               Fairie Queen others to form Barclay’s Bank. Gibson’s imposing Wells, two symphonies, and works for wind band. the Middle East and Iraq. and, as a poet on his own account, perpetual fountains and ingenious automata. “epitaphed as the Inventour of the premises, built in 1874 to the design of E den Nesfield,    The height of Gordon Jacob’s reputation was in the Returning to north-west Essex, Bawden was a key     > >A> sought to become Henry Winstanley is most associated, however, with    A A A> English Hexameter” house the current local branch o f Barclay’s and the     1950’s, during which his Music for a Festival was figure in the Great Bardfield group of artists that lived . Having become professor of the construction of the Eddystone lighthouse. After main faç ade contains played at the opening o f the Royal Festival Hall and in and around the rhetoric in 1576, he was invited two years later to failed attempts by others, he managed, despite  carved bas-reliefs of  his arran gements of the National Anthem an d   village. Though diverse  A>  >A            dispute before Queen Elizabeth I on the occasion of capture by a French privateer during the course of the storks, taken from the H andel’s Zadok the Priest featured prominently in the    in style, they shared a her visit to Sir Thomas Smith at Audley End House. works, to erect an octagonal structure of wood and family’s coat of arms. Queen’s Coronation. Although in the 1960’s, his   love of figu rative a rt,                  Harvey’s reputation as a notable scholar and iron with glass lantern room               As a local philanthropist,   0melodic conservatism  print-m aking and         inventive wordsmith was compromised by his that was completed in there was hardly any  fell out of fashion in this      illustration and             unbending and quarrelsome character. Two attempts November 1698. The next institution that did not country, his works        mounted a series of           to be elected master of Trinity Hall were ultimately spring it was partially  benefit from George S tacey     continu ed to be warmly  “open house”                   unsuccessful and he maintained a vitriolic literary rebuilt on a grander scale               Gibson’s generosity and,        appreciated abroad. He exhibitions during the                correspondence with Thomas Nashe over several and, during the five  on h is death he left a         live d in Saffron Walden       1950 ’s which attracted years. In the latter’s operational years of             “Have with You to substantial estate of from 1959 to 1984 with        wide press attention             pamphlet, Winstanley’s lighthouses, no              Saffron Walden” £342,456, equivalent to his second wife,  and visitors. After the         , Harvey is ships were wrecked on the             “as he is readie to  £25m to day. This was distributed to the hospital, the    Margaret, w here he death of his wife          caricatured Eddystone. Tragedy struck,             let fly upon Ajax” mu seum, the literary society, the Grammar School, the   contributed greatly to the         Charlotte in 1970, at the however, on the 27th British Schools, the Friends’ School, the training musical life of the town        Bawden mov ed to Sa ffron Walden where he      @           thought of Nashe’s November 1703, while he college for fe male teach ers, and th e alms houses, as    and w as aw arded a CBE continued to w ork until his death at the age of eighty-   publication. (Ajax being a was on an inspection visit. The tower was entirely            well as worthy causes outside the town. Building uses  in 1968.  six. He was awarded a CBE in 1946, appointed Royal   common Elizabethan pun on destroyed by the “Great Storm” during the night and  may have changed, but the physical legacy of these            Designer for Industry (RSA) in 1949 and elected a           “a jacks”, which was slang its occupants were swept away. Two days later the institutions is still a very visible reminder of his             Royal Academician in 1956. The Fry Art Gallery in  for toilet.) Winchelsea ran into the rocks and all 21 crew perished. contribution to the history of Saffron Wald en.    Church Street Saffron Walden holds a substantial                                       body of his work in its permanent co llection.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                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