Mr Francis William Troup

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at Art Workers Guild, Third Exhibition, 1905

Managed Line (Art Workers Guild), 1923

Participant in Art Workers Guild Revels, 1939

Speaker at Leadwork (Art Workers Guild), 1903

Speaker at Old Lead-work (Art Workers Guild), 1908

Speaker at The Ornamental Use of Cast-Iron (Art Workers Guild), 1914

Speaker at Temporary Street Decoration (Art Workers Guild), 1914

Speaker at Railway Stations and their Approaches (Art Workers Guild), 1916

Speaker at Ships (Art Workers Guild), 1916

Speaker at Bridges (Art Workers Guild), 1916

Speaker at Ferro-concrete Construction (Art Workers Guild), 1916

Speaker at The Crafts and Exhibitions Schemes (Art Workers Guild), 1917

Speaker at The Mason's Craft and his Materials (Art Workers Guild), 1922

Speaker at Co-operation of the Architect and the Craftsman (Art Workers Guild), 1922

Speaker at Churchyard Monuments (Art Workers Guild), 1923

Speaker at The Artistic Value of Japanese Lacquer (Art Workers Guild), 1923

Speaker at Shop Fronts and Shop Fittings (Art Workers Guild), 1923

Speaker at Architecture and the Press (Art Workers Guild), 1923

Speaker at Roofing Materials (Art Workers Guild), 1923

Speaker at London (Art Workers Guild), 1923

Speaker at Scottish Art, 1500-1800 (Art Workers Guild), 1923

Speaker at Substitutes in the Crafts (Art Workers Guild), 1925

Speaker at Design and Construction of St Paul's Cathedral (Art Workers Guild), 1926

Speaker at Factories (Art Workers Guild), 1927

Speaker at Inigo Jones (Art Workers Guild), 1929

Speaker at Bridges (Art Workers Guild), 1929

Speaker at The Geological Basis of Architecture (Art Workers Guild), 1931

Speaker at Lethaby and his Work (Art Workers Guild), 1932

Speaker at Timber Construction of the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries (Art Workers Guild), 1933

Speaker at Ship Decoration (Art Workers Guild), 1934

Speaker at The Work of Recently Deceased Members (Art Workers Guild), 1935

Speaker at Buildings preserved by the National Trust (Art Workers Guild), 1936

Speaker at Scotland's Contribution to the Arts (Art Workers Guild), 1938

Speaker at The English Castle (Art Workers Guild), 1939

Institutional and Business Connections

Donor to Art Workers Guild
5 December 1924 (Circa)
Donated red gown of office to be work by the Master of the Guild and black gowns to be worn by the two honorary secretaries [AWG annual report for 1924, p.10].

Donor to Art Workers Guild
1926
'Thanks are due Past-Master Troup, who not only safeguarded the interests of the Guild in connection with the new building next door [no further information given], but generously gave his 'party-wall' fee to pay for a new arrangement of the electric lighting of the Hall' [AWG annual report for 1926, p.9].

Donor to Art Workers Guild
1941
Left a bequest to the Guild in his will of £250; also left "The Works of William Morris" (24 volumes), 'a collection of valuable books on Architecture and other crafts' (45 volumes), a collection of slides, a red painted table (designed and painted by Burne-Jones), two armchairs designed by W.R.Lethaby and E.Gimson [Fifty-eighth annual report of the Committee of the Art Workers' Guild, pp.5-6].

Master of Art Workers Guild
1923

Member of Art Workers Guild
1895
Master in 1923. In 1935, in recognition of his 'valuable and untiring services as Architect to the fabric of the Guild premises', he was made an ex-officio member of the committee [fifty-second annual report of the committee of the Art Workers' Guild, 1936, p.15].

Teacher of metal work at Central School of Arts and Crafts
1896 - June 1901
Listed as an architect and a teacher of 'Lead Casting and Ornamental Lead Work'.

Sources

Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1901-1912
1903, p.6; 1905, p.9; 1908, p.6.

Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1914, p.10; 1916, pp.7-9; 1917, p.8; 1922, p.5, p.7; 1923, pp.9-10; 1924, p.10; 1925, p.7; 1926, p.4, p.7; 1927, p.6; 1929, p.7; 1931, p.10; 1932, p.10; 1933, p.12.

Central School of Arts and Crafts, Prospectus and Time-Table. Fifth Session Commencing 24 September 1900
24 September 1900
p. 2.

Prospectus and Time Table, The Central School of Arts and Crafts, 20 December 1896
20 December 1896
p. 2.

The fifty-eighth annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1942
1942
pp.4-5.

The fifty-fifth annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1939
1939
p.11.

The fifty-first annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1935
1935
p.12.

The fifty-second annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1936
1936
p.8, p.15.

The fifty-sixth annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1940
1940
p.7.

The fifty-third annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1937
1937
p.10.