Leonard Knight Elmhirst information

Leonard Knight Elmhirst FRSA (6 June 1893 – 16 April 1974) was a British philanthropist and agronomist who worked extensively in India. He co-founded...

building dedicated to her late husband's memory. In 1920, she met Leonard Knight Elmhirst (1893–1974), an Englishman from a Yorkshire landowning family,...

1953 to 1958. Thomas Elmhirst was born on 15 December 1895 to Reverend William Heaton Elmhirst (b. 1856) and Mary Elmhirst (née Knight; b. 1863), a landed...

Elmhirst is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Edward Elmhirst (1811-1893), cricketer Leonard Knight Elmhirst (1893-1974), English agronomist...

Payne Whitney, a philanthropist. After his mother's remarriage to Leonard Knight Elmhirst, Straight lived in England. The wedding was attended by Janet Auchincloss...

(born 1954) Betsey Cushing (1908–1998) Henry F. Dimock (1842–1911) Leonard Knight Elmhirst (1893–1974) Helen Julia Hay (1876–1944) Almeric Hugh Paget, 1st...

Sriniketan in 1922, by the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Leonard Knight Elmhirst was its first director. Rabindranath was engaged in his zamindari...

School in New York City and, after his mother's remarriage to Leonard Knight Elmhirst (1893–1974), in England at his family's Dartington Hall, followed...

classical music in the outside world. In 1936, he was invited by Leonard Knight Elmhirst, who had earlier assisted Rabindranath Tagore in building Sriniketan...

States Army in France during World War I, her grandmother married Leonard Knight Elmhirst (1893–1974). Her father's siblings included Whitney Willard Straight...

210. http://www.dartingtonarchive.org.uk/lke_pep.html Papers of Leonard Knight Elmhirst at The Dartington Hall Trust Huxley, ibid. Sampson, A. (1962) Anatomy...

in 1922, he was posted there. In the absence of the director, Leonard Knight Elmhirst, he was given administrative charge of Sriniketan. He was given...

1932 Alfred O Elmhirst negotiated the re-purchase of Houndhill on behalf of his brother, the noted philanthropist Leonard Knight Elmhirst. Houndhill then...

married to Willard Dickerman Straight (1880–1918), and later to Leonard Knight Elmhirst (1893–1974) after Straight's death. Whitney studied at Groton School...

Straight met a Cornell Agriculture student, Leonard Knight Elmhirst, who persuaded her to visit the campus. Elmhirst and Straight together with certain faculty...

Rabindranath Tagore and assisted in setting up Visva Bharati. Leonard Knight Elmhirst, set up the Institute of Rural Reconstruction at Sriniketan. Khan...

Economists was formed in 1929 as a result of meetings organized by Leonard Knight Elmhirst and Carl Edwin Ladd. These were in part a response to the agricultural...

married Willard Dickerman Straight (1880–1918) and later married Leonard Knight Elmhirst (1893–1974) after Straight's death. After a three-week illness...

married Willard Dickerman Straight (1880–1918) and later married Leonard Knight Elmhirst (1893–1974) Flora Payne Whitney died on February 5, 1893, at age...

historian, novelist, biographer and editor of Fraser's Magazine. Leonard Knight Elmhirst FRSA (1893–1974), philanthropist and agronomist, co-founded the...

embroidery, handicrafts, music, dancing, painting and gardening. Leonard Knight Elmhirst, an Englishman, was in charge of the Agricultural Institute at...

actor John Duttine (1949–), actor Leonard Knight Elmhirst (1893–1974), philanthropist Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst (1895–1982), Commander-in-Chief Royal...

even during his Dartington days with the founder of the college, Leonard Knight Elmhirst. During World War II Lack however served with a British Army unit...

an investment banker and diplomat. Straight's step-father was Leonard Knight Elmhirst. Cookson and Straight married in 1949, and had two children: Gary...

been bought by Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst in the 1920s. With ideas from the philosopher Rabindranath Tagore and money Dorothy Elmhirst inherited from...

Institute of Rural Reconstruction in the manor house, in 1922 with Leonard Knight Elmhirst as its first director. Rathindranath Tagore, Santosh Chandra Mazumdar...

time it was bought in 1925 by the British-American millionaire couple Leonard Elmhirst (orig. from Yorkshire) and his wife Dorothy (née Whitney) from New...

Hugh Fortescue, 5th Earl Fortescue 1957 Rev. S. C. Carpenter 1959 Leonard Knight Elmhirst 1960 Tony Giffard, 3rd Earl of Halsbury 1962 Robert Mortimer, Bishop...