Eric Gill AKA Arthur Eric Rowton Gill Born: 22-Feb-1882 Birthplace: Brighton, Sussex, England Died: 17-Nov-1940 Location of death: Uxbridge, Middlesex, England Cause of death: Complications of Surgery Remains: Buried
Gender: Male Religion: Roman Catholic Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Bisexual Occupation: Typographer, Sculptor Nationality: England Executive summary: Typographer, Gill Sans Military service: British Royal Air Force (1918) Studied calligraphy with Edward Johnston, author of the font used on London Underground signage, upon which Gill's ubiquitous Gill Sans is based. Gill also authored the seriffed fonts Perpetua and Joanna.
Lived in a bohemian artists' community in Ditchling, Sussex, from 1907-24. Numbered among its residents was author G. K. Chesterton. Gill founded two other such communities in his lifetime.
The Fiona McCarthy biography of Gill alleges, based on study of his meticulous diary, that Gill committed incest with both of his sisters and two of his daughters; Gill also mentions tersely that he "continued experiment with dog after and discovered that a dog will join with a man." Father: Arthur Tidman Gill (non-conformist minister) Mother: Cicely Rose King Gill Brother: Cecil Ernest Gaspar Gill (physician) Brother: Kenneth Gill (d., plane crash) Brother: Vernon Gill Brother: Evan R. Gill Brother: MacDonald Gill (cartographer) Sister: Angela Sister: Gladys Sister: Enid Clay Sister: Cicely (d. 18-Jan-1897) Wife: Mary Gill (Ethel Hester Moore, b. 1878, m. 6-Aug-1904, d. 1961, 3 daughters) Daughter: Betty (b. 1905) Daughter: Petra (b. 1906) Daughter: Joanna (b. 1910) Son: Gordian Gill (adopted 1917) Mistress: May Reeves
High School: Technical and Art School, Chichester, England University: Calligraphy, Central School of Arts and Crafts, London, England (1902)
Fabian Society 1905 Royal Academy of Arts Associate (1937) Royal Institute of British Architects Honorary Associate (1935)
Royal Society of British Sculptors Honorary Associate (1937)
Society of Wood-Engravers
Converted to Catholicism 22-Feb-1913 Nervous Breakdown 1930 Risk Factors: Smoking, Lung Cancer
Is the subject of books:
The Life of Eric Gill, 1966, BY: R. Speaight
Eric Gill, 1966, BY: R. Brewer
Eric Gill, The Man Who Loved Letters, 1973, BY: R. Brewer
The Letter Forms and Type Design of Eric Gill, 1976, BY: R. Harling
Eric Gill: A Lover's Quest for Art and God, 1989, BY: Fiona MacCarthy
Author of books:
Essay on Typography (1931, typography) Autobiography (1940, memoirs)
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