Writer: David A Cross
David Cross is a writer, lecturer, independent art historian and an honorary research fellow of University College Durham, with interests in biography, sculpture and the artists of Cumbria. He won Lakeland Book of the Year awards for his biography of George Romney [2000] and one of his two editions of the letters of Percy Kelly. His most recent publication is Public Sculpture of Lancashire and Cumbria [2017].
Dr Percy Withers
(1867-1945)
Friend of Poets and Artists and Physician
Helen Kapp
(1901-1978)
Artist, Illustrator and Museum Director
James Bowstead
(1801-1843)
Bishop
John Bernard Gilpin
(1701-1776)
Drawing Master and Soldier
John Walter Guerier Lund
(1912-2015)
Phycologist
Josefina de Vasconcellos
(1904-2005)
Sculptor
Joseph Moorhouse
(1744-1791)
Soldier
Malcolm Cross
(1925-2015)
Engineer and Museum Founder
Mary Elizabeth Burkett
(1924-2014)
Museum Director
Ophelia Gordon Bell
(1915-1975)
Sculptor
Percy Kelly
(1918-1993)
Artist
Peter Strong
(1932-2018)
Artist and Stained Glass Artist
Robert Salmon
(1775-c.1845)
Marine Artist
Sir Benjamin Scott
(1841-1927)
Industrialist and Politician
Sir Joseph Dacre Appleby Gilpin
(1745-1834)
Surgeon
In Preparation
Sir Robin Philipson
(1916-1992)
Artist, Lecturer and Arts Administrator
Thomas Bland
(1798-1865)
Artist, Farmer and Sculptor
