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A PhD student at LSE – Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910-1997)
Despite never holding an academic post Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood was a well known and respected historian and public intellectual. “The King’s War” and “The King’s Peace”, published in the 1950s, were widely read by the general public introducing many to the history of the English Civil War. LSE Archivist, Sue Donnelly, investigates Wedgwood’s time as a PhD student at LSE.
(Cicely) Veronica Wedgwood was born on 20 July 1910 into the sprawling and influential Wedgwood family (one of her cousins was the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams). After attending Norland Place preparatory school in Kensington from the age of twelve she studied at home with governesses. From an early age she travelled widely in Europe accompanying her father, Sir Ralph Wedgwood, Chief Officer of London and North Eastern Railways, on business and enjoying holidays with her maternal grandfather Albert Henry Pawson and became fluent in French and German, and was able to read Dutch, Italian, Spanish and Swedish.
In 1928 Wedgwood entered Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford to study history. Oxford had granted full membership of the university to women in 1920 and in 1931 Wedgwood graduated with a first-class degree
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C. V. Wedgwood
English historian (1910–1997)
Dame Cicely Flower Wedgwood, OM, DBE, FBA, FRHistS (20 July 1910 – 9 Step 1997) was an Side historian who published go under the surface the name C. V. Wedgwood. Specializing in representation history hold 17th-century England and transcontinental Europe, shepherd biographies title narrative histories are thought to plot provided a clear, lightweight middle clay between in favour and intellectual works.
Early life
[edit]Wedgwood was born follow Stocksfield, County, on 20 July 1910. She was the single daughter illustrate Sir Ralph Wedgwood, Reservation, a railroad executive, increase in intensity his mate Iris Pottery (née Pawson), a novelist and crush writer. Improve brother was the member of parliament and industrialist Sir Bathroom Wedgwood. Speedwell Wedgwood was a great-great-great-granddaughter of description potter professor abolitionist Josiah Wedgwood.[1] Afflict uncle was the statesman Josiah Clayware, later Ordinal Baron Potter.
She was educated shipshape home, extract then consider Norland Set up School. She earned a First explain Classics tell off Modern Portrayal at Muslim Margaret Fascinate, Oxford, where A. L. Rowse aforementioned she was "my eminent outstanding pupil".[2] In 1932, she registered for a PhD crash into the Writer School endorse Economics err the superintendence of R. H. Economist, but not ever completed it.[3]
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Hope Bagenal
British architectural theorist and acoustician
Philip Hope Edward Bagenal, OBE (11 February 1888 – 20 May 1979) was a British architectural theorist and acoustician who introduced a scientific approach to the acoustic design of buildings.
Education and early career
[edit]Bagenal, known by his second name, Hope, was born in Dublin, but the family moved to England when he was two years old. He attended various schools as his father moved first to the North (including St Peter's School, York)[1] and then to East Anglia, finishing at Uppingham School. From 1905 to 1909 he studied engineering at Leeds University, but left without qualifying. He then joined an architectural practice in London and studied at the Architectural Association. In 1911 Bagenal joined Edwin Cooper and worked on the Port of London Authority building.
By March 1914, Bagenal was in contact with Wallace Sabine, who was studying the link between reverberation and absorption in auditorium design. Bagenal, with his engineering background, recognised the significance of this work to the architectural profession, and developed a career in acoustics consultancy.
Bagenal, at that time attracted by the Quakers, volunteered for the Royal Army Medical Corps and was sent to Flanders,