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In 1873 [his father] William Spencer [aged 28] and [his mother] Anna Caroline Slack [aged 22] were married.
On 30th June 1891 Stanley Spencer was born to William Spencer [aged 46] and Anna Caroline Slack [aged 40] at Cookham, Berkshire. He was their eighth surviving child.
From 1908 to 1912 Stanley Spencer [aged 16] studied at the Slade School of Art under Henry Tonks. So attached to Cookham most days he would take the train back home in time for tea. It even became his nickname.
1912-13. Stanley Spencer [aged 20]. Self-portrait.
1914. Stanley Spencer [aged 22]. "Mending Cowls".
1914. Stanley Spencer [aged 22]. "Cookham".
1914. Stanley Spencer [aged 22]. Self-portrait.
1915-19. Stanley Spencer [aged 23]. "Swan Upping at Cookham".
In 1922 [his mother] Anna Caroline Slack [aged 71] died.
On 23rd February 1925 Stanley Spencer [aged 33] and Hilda Anne Carline [aged 35] were married.
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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1926. Stanley Spencer [aged 34]. "The Red House, Wangford".
In 1928 [his father] William Spencer [aged 83] died.
On 31st December 1930 [his brother] Gilbert Spencer [aged 38] and [his sister-in-law] Margaret Ursula Bradshaw [aged 32] were married at Holy Trinity Church, South Kensington, London. John Northcote Nash [aged 37] was his best man.
Around 1931. Stanley Spencer [aged 39]. "Turk's Boatyard Cookham".
Around 1932. Stanley Spencer [aged 40]. "Terry's Lane, Cookham".
1933. Stanley Spencer [aged 41]. Portrait of [his future wife] Patricia Preece [aged 38].
Patricia Preece: On 22nd January 1894 she was born. In May 1937 Stanley Spencer and Hilda Anne Carline were divorced. A week later he married Patricia Preece. On 19th May 1966 she died.
1935. Stanley Spencer [aged 43]. "Clipped Yews".
1937. Stanley Spencer [aged 45]. "Greenhouse and Garden".
Around 1937. Stanley Spencer [aged 45]. "Family Group: Hilda [aged 47], Unity and Dolls". Hilda being the artist's wife and Unity their child.
In May 1937 Stanley Spencer [aged 45] and Hilda Anne Carline [aged 47] were divorced. A week later he married Patricia Preece [aged 43].
In May 1937 Stanley Spencer [aged 45] and Patricia Preece [aged 43] were married in Maidenhead a week atter his divorce from Hilda Anne Carline [aged 47]. Her lover Dorothy Hepworth was present at the wedding (left in photo). She and Hepworth then went to St. Ives for the "honeymoon" while Spencer remained in Cookham to complete a painting. He, apparently, in his wife's absence slept with his former wife Hilda Anne Carline. Preece, as a consequence, refused to have sexual relations with him. He signed over his house to Preece. Preece and Hepworth evicted him from the house in 1938.
Around 1939 Stanley Spencer [aged 47] and Daphne Gribble began an affair after the breakdown of his second marriage
The History of William Marshal was commissioned by his son shortly after William’s death in 1219 to celebrate the Marshal’s remarkable life; it is an authentic, contemporary voice. The manuscript was discovered in 1861 by French historian Paul Meyer. Meyer published the manuscript in its original Anglo-French in 1891 in two books. This book is a line by line translation of the first of Meyer’s books; lines 1-10152. Book 1 of the History begins in 1139 and ends in 1194. It describes the events of the Anarchy, the role of William’s father John, John’s marriages, William’s childhood, his role as a hostage at the siege of Newbury, his injury and imprisonment in Poitou where he met Eleanor of Aquitaine and his life as a knight errant. It continues with the accusation against him of an improper relationship with Margaret, wife of Henry the Young King, his exile, and return, the death of Henry the Young King, the rebellion of Richard, the future King Richard I, war with France, the death of King Henry II, and the capture of King Richard, and the rebellion of John, the future King John. It ends with the release of King Richard and the death of John Marshal.
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1939. Stanley Spencer [aged 47]. "The Woolshop". Model Daphne Gribble.
1939. Stanley Spencer [aged 47]. "Zacharias and Elizabeth".
1940. Stanley Spencer [aged 48]. "Farm Pond, Leonard Stanley".
1940. Stanley Spencer [aged 48]. "Daphne".
1941. Stanley Spencer [aged 49]. "Shipbuilding on the Clyde: Burners".
1941. Stanley Spencer [aged 49]. Portrait of Daphne Gribble.
1945. Stanley Spencer [aged 53]. "The Resurrection: The Reunion of Families".
On 1st November 1950 [his former wife] Hilda Anne Carline [aged 60] died. She was buried at Holy Trinity Church, Cookham [Map].
1951. Stanley Spencer [aged 59]. Portrait of the artist's niece Daphne Spencer.
1953. Stanley Spencer [aged 61]. Portrait of Daphne Gribble.
1956-57. Stanley Spencer [aged 64]. "Dinner on the Hotel Lawn".
Before 28th January 1958. Stanley Spencer [aged 66]. "Miss Ashwanden in Cookham". The artist's last completed painting of his dying neighbour Priscilla Ann Ashwanden aged seventeen. She died soon after the painting was completed on 28th January 1958.
12th July 1959-16th. Stanley Spencer [aged 68]. Self-portrait. Painted over five days from July 12 to July 16; his final self-portrait.
Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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On 14th December 1959 Stanley Spencer [aged 68] died at the Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital on the Cliveden estate. His ashes were buried at Holy Trinity Church, Cookham [Map] in the same grave as his first wife Hilda Anne Carline: "To the memory of Stanley Spencer Kt. CBE RA, 1891–1959, and his wife Hilda, buried in Cookham cemetery 1950. Everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God: He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love."
On 19th May 1966 [his former wife] Patricia Preece [aged 72] died.