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- John Waldegrave Blyth 1873 - 1962 Industrialist and art collector. Born into an old Fife family which had built a successful linen manufactory in Kirkcaldy, Blyth joined the family business and was to make his fortune with orders from the military during the First World War.
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John Waldegrave Blyth. 1873 - 1962. Industrialist and art collector. Born into an old Fife family which had built a successful linen manufactory in Kirkcaldy, Blyth joined the family business and was to make his fortune with orders from the military during the First World War.
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- National Gallery of Scotland
One of two grand Neo-Classical edifices at the foot of the...
- Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery
This collection owes much to John Waldegrave Blyth (1873 -...
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Apr 10, 2014 · John Blyth was the first chairman of the trustees (and remained so until his death in 1962) and his daughter, Cora, was the mother of the former Tory politician Michael Portillo.
Dec 10, 2021 · Following John Nairn, it was another Kirkcaldy industrialist and collector, John Waldegrave Blyth, who shaped the collection. Blyth ran a linen weaving factory in the town and he was involved with the Gallery from the start, when he became the Convener of the Art Gallery committee in 1925.
Jul 28, 2012 · John Waldegrave Blyth (1873–1962) was a Kirkcaldy linen manufacturer with a passion for art collecting that began in his early thirties. By the time of his death he owned 237 paintings...
Jul 4, 2012 · John Waldegrave Blyth who once held the largest private collection of Scottish art. It included an abundance of Scottish Colourist work. There were 237 paintings in the entire collection, including 84 Samuel Peploes, 45 McTaggarts and 24 by Walter Sickerts.
Lady Waldegrave was the daughter of the Jewish Opera tenor John Braham and the Anglican Frances Elizabeth Bolton. Her unconventional background certainly did not go unnoticed. Despite her Christian upbringing (she used to say her prayers in the little China Room at Strawberry Hill) Frances’ contemporaries often referred to her as ‘the ...
Born in Lincoln, Lincolnshire on April 1873 to John Blyth and Elizabeth Waldegrave. John Waldegrave Blyth married Alice Maud or Mary Lowe and had 3 children. He passed away on 19 Mar 1962 in Kirkcaldy.
