Penty, Arthur J. 1875-1937
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- nuc88-119831: His Old worlds for new, 1917(hdg. on MH rept.: Penty, Arthur J. (Arthur Joseph), 1875-1937; usage: Arthur J. Penty)
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Arthur Joseph Penty (17 March 1875 – 1937) was an English architect and writer on guild socialism and distributism. He was first a Fabian socialist, and follower of Victorian thinkers William Morris and John Ruskin. He is generally credited with the formulation of a Christian socialist form of the medieval guild, as an alternative basis for economic life. Penty was the elder of the two architect sons of Walter Green Penty of York, designer of the York Institute of Art, Science and Literature. While a pupil and assistant with his father, Penty absorbed the spirit of the Arts and Crafts Movement and the progressive movement in Glasgow.
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