About: Thomas Okey

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Thomas Okey (1852–1935) was an expert on basket weaving, a translator of Italian, and a writer on art and the topography of architecture and art works in Italy and France. In 1919, he became the first Serena Professor of Italian at Cambridge University. Okey was a hereditary basket maker from a poor East End of London family, and on his appointment at Cambridge, he stated, Money...social position as such counts for nothing... and Okey was a member of the Art Workers' Guild and was elected Master in 1914.

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  • Thomas Okey (1852–1935) was an expert on basket weaving, a translator of Italian, and a writer on art and the topography of architecture and art works in Italy and France. In 1919, he became the first Serena Professor of Italian at Cambridge University. Okey was a hereditary basket maker from a poor East End of London family, and on his appointment at Cambridge, he stated, Money...social position as such counts for nothing... and the consciousness that one stands for what one is worth as a scholar and a man... All stand on an equality of worth, from the porter at the gate to the Master in the lodge Okey was a member of the Art Workers' Guild and was elected Master in 1914. (en)
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  • Thomas Okey (1852–1935) was an expert on basket weaving, a translator of Italian, and a writer on art and the topography of architecture and art works in Italy and France. In 1919, he became the first Serena Professor of Italian at Cambridge University. Okey was a hereditary basket maker from a poor East End of London family, and on his appointment at Cambridge, he stated, Money...social position as such counts for nothing... and Okey was a member of the Art Workers' Guild and was elected Master in 1914. (en)
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  • Thomas Okey (en)
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