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Fuller Name
- Stephen Lewis
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1882-02
Birth Date
- 1883
Death Date
- 1967-10
Birth Place
- Essex (England)
Occupation
(lcsh) Art -- Collectors and collecting
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Sources
- found: A catalogue of the Roman and related foreign coins ... 1963:t.p. (Sir Stephen Courtauld)
- found: Virginia, un mondo perduto, 2017:p. 83, etc. (Stephen Courtauld, from the wealthy family of British industrialists, was born Februrary 1882 in Essex; alpinist and art collector; in 1933, he and his wife Virginia acquired the royal residence Eltham Palace, then in a ruinous state, which they transformed into a modernist showcase; forced to give up the property during the war, they moved to Scotland, then Southern Rhodesia, where he died in October 1967)
- found: Wikipedia, viewed Dec. 22, 2017:(Sir Stephen Lewis Courtauld, MC (1883-1967) was a member of the wealthy English Courtauld textile family; did not enter the family business but his wealthy background enabled him to pursue cultural and philanthropic interests--most notably, the redevelopment during the 1930s of Eltham Palace in southeast London; Courtauld was financial director of Ealing Studios, a trustee of the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden, and provided financial support for the Courtauld Galleries in Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum; received Military Cross for service in First World War and was knighted in 1958; died in Southern Rhodesia in 1967)
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Change Notes
- 2009-01-19: new
- 2017-12-22: revised
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