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Reginald Gleadowe CVO (6 May 1888 – 9 October 1944) was a British teacher and designer who was Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University.


Career

Reginald Morier Yorke Gleadowe was born in London to G.E.Y. Gleadowe CMG, Controller-General of
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. Gleadowe was educated at
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,
New College, Oxford New College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1379 by Bishop William of Wykeham in conjunction with Winchester College as New College's feeder school, New College was one of the first col ...
, and the
Slade School of Art The UCL Slade School of Fine Art (informally The Slade) is the art school of University College London (UCL) and is based in London, England. It has been ranked as the UK's top art and design educational institution. The school is organised as ...
. He entered the
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in 1912 as a clerk at the
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. He became private secretary to the
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. During
World War I World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...
he served as a
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in the Eastern Mediterranean, with a commission as honorary captain in the
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. After the war Gleadowe was assistant to the Director of the
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1919–23. He then became a master at Winchester College, responsible for art. He remained on the staff until his death but with many outside activities including
Slade Professor of Fine Art The Slade Professorship of Fine Art is the oldest professorship of art and art history at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and University College, London. History The chairs were founded concurrently in 1869 by a bequest from the art collect ...
at
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1928–33 (a visiting professorship). He exhibited at the
Paris International Exhibition of 1937 The ''Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne'' (International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life) was held from 25 May to 25 November 1937 in Paris, France. Both the Palais de Chaillot, housing the Musà ...
and at the
1939 New York World's Fair The 1939 New York World's Fair (also known as the 1939–1940 New York World's Fair) was an world's fair, international exposition at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City, New York, United States. The fair included exhibitio ...
. During
World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
he was Admiralty representative on the
War Artists' Advisory Committee The War Artists' Advisory Committee (WAAC), was a British government agency established within the Ministry of Information at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 and headed by Sir Kenneth Clark. Its aim was to compile a comprehensive artis ...
. Among many other items he designed the Sword of Stalingrad. Gleadowe was made a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in 1943. He died in
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in October 1944.


Family

In 1921 Gleadowe married Cecil Rotton. Their daughter Tess, a musician, married the biologist and BBC chairman
Michael Swann Michael Meredith Swann, Baron Swann, (1 March 1920 – 22 September 1990) was a British molecular and cell biologist. He was appointed chairman of the BBC, awarded a knighthood and subsequently a life peerage. Early life Swann was born in Cam ...
.Lady Tess Swann: Organist, viola player and wife of Lord Swann
(obituary), ''The Independent'', London, 13 October 2009


Publications

*''Ambrose McEvoy'' (Contemporary British Artists series), Ernest Benn, London, 1924 *''Albert Rutherston'' (Contemporary British Artists series), Ernest Benn, London, 1925 *''Oxford University and the fine arts : Inaugural lecture delivered before the University on 1 February 1928'', Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1928 *''British art : six broadcast talks'', BBC, London, 1934


Arms


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gleadowe, Reginald Morier Yorke 1888 births 1944 deaths 20th-century Royal Navy personnel People educated at Winchester College Alumni of New College, Oxford Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art Civil servants in the Admiralty British designers Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order Slade Professors of Fine Art (University of Oxford) Royal Marines personnel of World War I Teachers at Winchester College