Gilbert Richard Redgrave (12 May 1844 in

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, London – 14 June 1941 in

Abinger Common Abinger is a large, well-wooded and mostly rural civil parish that lies between the settlements of Dorking, Shere and Ewhurst in the district of Mole Valley, Surrey, England. It adjoins Wotton Common on the same side of Leith Hill and inclu ...

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) was an English architectural draughtsman,

bibliographer Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes ''bibliograph ...

and

art historian Art history is the study of artistic works made throughout human history. Among other topics, it studies art’s formal qualities, its impact on societies and cultures, and how artistic styles have changed throughout history. Traditionally, the ...

. Redgrave was son of the painter

Richard Redgrave Richard Redgrave (30 April 1804 in Pimlico, London – 14 December 1888 in Kensington, London) was an English landscape artist, genre painter, and administrator. Early life He was born in Pimlico, London, at 2 Belgrave Terrace, the second son ...

and his wife Rose Margaret Bacon (1811–). In the 1860s he worked on the design of the

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, writing the programme of its opening ceremony. He was manager of the first

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, destroyed by fire shortly after its opening in 1873, and architect to the Royal Commissioners of the

Paris Exhibition Paris Exposition or Paris Exhibition can refer to * French Industrial Exposition of 1844 * Exposition des produits de l'industrie française, held intermittently from 1798 to 1849 * Exposition Universelle (1855), the Paris Exposition of 1855 * Expos ...

in 1878. He became an Officer of the

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and a member of the Athenaeum Club. Secretary of the 1881–84 Royal Commission on Technical Instruction, Redgrave became an Inspector of Schools, rising to become chief senior inspector of

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s under the Board of Education in 1897 and assistant secretary to the Board in 1900. He edited his father's writings and addresses, and published several works of his own on art history. He was president of the

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of London in 1908, and with Alfred W. Pollard edited the STC, or ''A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475–1640'' (1926).Early English books, 1475-1640: Pollard & Redgrave Collection
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Redgrave, Gilbert Richard 1844 births 1941 deaths English bibliographers Presidents of the Bibliographical Society English art historians Architects from London