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Margaret Gardiner (art collector)

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245: 187:. Despite never marrying, Gardiner referred to herself as "Mrs Bernal". Bernal had married Agnes Eileen Sprague, a secretary, on 21 June 1922, the day after being awarded his BA degree when he was aged 21. As well as his son with Gardiner, he had two children with Sprague and one with 108:. There she read Modern Languages, but transferred to Moral Sciences, the Cambridge term for Philosophy. Her family was wealthy and she had no need to work, devoting her life instead to politics and the arts. At Cambridge she fell in love with 203:, she was part of the 1930s and 40s group campaigning "For Intellectual Liberty". Gardiner was however not pressed to join the party. She spent a winter with Bernal in Moscow but had reservations about 650: 645: 625: 600: 284:
work. She gave 67 works of art to the people of Orkney and "Curved Form" now sits outside on the centre's pier on the original plinth from Gardiner's garden.
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Although this is what the Guardian obituary says, the election results for 1966 and 1970 do not, however, support this: a left-wing
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in 1956 which Gardiner kept on display in her back garden in Hampstead. The work, named after a hill in
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After Cambridge she spent a brief, but unsuccessful, time as an elementary school teacher in
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candidate stood in 1966 when Whitaker won, but not 1970. Discussion on talk page please.
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in 1927 at the age of 24. She visited his grave there 56 years later and wrote a book,
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Trust, Stromness. She was referred to as Margaret Emilia Gardiner Bernal on the list.
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Barbara Hepworth's curved form which stood in Gardiner's back garden in Hampstead
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She made her home at 35 Downshire Hill, Hampstead, close to the
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She spent a large part of her life away from London on
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Index

OBE
Hampstead
John Desmond Bernal
1980 Birthday Honours
OBE
Pier Arts Centre
Berlin
Egyptologist
Alan Gardiner
Howard Carter
Lord Carnarvon
Tutankhamun
Swedish
Finn
Henry Rolf Gardiner
Fröbel
Hammersmith
Bedales
Newnham College
Cambridge
Bernard Deacon
Trinity
blackwater fever
Malakula
New Hebrides
Vanuatu
Gamlingay
Barbara Hepworth
Ben Nicholson
W. H. Auden

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