Arthur Joseph Penty
Born 17 March 1875
Died 19 January 1937
Active: 1910 - 1935
Country of birth and death: England
Architect, author, christian socialist
Born in York. He was the second son of Walter Penty (1852-1902), an architect. Arthur trained and worked in his father's office until 1902. Around 1900 he had met Alfred Orage and was involved in the foundation of the Leeds Arts Club with Holbrook Jackson.
Penty moved to London in 1902 to pursue his interest in the arts and crafts movement. He was joined there by Orage and Holbrook around 1905. Over the next thirty years Penty published a number of texts on Guild socialism and distributism including 'The Restoration of the Guild System' (1906); 'Towards a Christian Sociology' (1923) and 'Distributism: A Manifesto' (1937).
Wealth at death: £266 13s. 5d.
Probate date: 9 February 1937
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Speaker at The Apprenticeship Problem (Art Workers Guild), 1910
Speaker at Psychology of Art (Art Workers Guild), 1933
Speaker at Reversal of Architectural Judgements in our Lifetime (Art Workers Guild), 1929
Speaker at Ruskin Reconsidered (Art Workers Guild), 1929
Speaker at Architecture Today and Tomorrow (Art Workers Guild), 1931
Speaker at Artistic Collapse in the Reign of Victoria (Art Workers Guild), 1935
Institutional and Business Connections
Founder member of Leeds Arts Club
According to Grosvenor (2004), Penty was involved in the foundation of the Leeds Arts Club
Member of Art Workers Guild
1925 - 1937 (Presumed)
Sources
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1901-1912
1910, p.6.
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Arthur Joseph Penty
Probate Date: 9 Feb 1937
Death Date: 19 Jan 1937
Death Place: Middlesex, England
Registry: London
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Peter C. Grosvenor, ‘Penty, Arthur Joseph (1875–1937)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/53509, accessed 9 April 2011]
Citing this record
'Arthur Joseph Penty', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1215786652, accessed 05 Jun 2023]
