Arthur Burgess
← People of the Society · on record 1952–1960
The Society’s records
Everything the Society’s own records say of Arthur Burgess: the offices held, the standings conferred, and the awards won. Where the records are silent, so is this part of the page.
Also recorded as Art Burgess
Branch
London · first recorded holding office in 1952
Certification
- Associate of the CSCL 1953
Of London. The newsletter records him teaching an Instructors course in leather tooling in the winter of 1948-49 (Helen Wheaton's own “Who's Who” account names him as her instructor) and contributing two technique notes under his own byline to the newsletter's “Workshop Tips”, on padding a knife blade to spare the fingers and on pre-shrinking leather before tooling (1973-spring p6; 1954-fall p9; 1953-spring p13). A 1952 visitor poll at the Society's own exhibition also names a piece of his among those “receiving a good percentage of votes” (1952-53-winter p7).
From Spring 1973, page 6.
Served the Society as
- Chairman Advertising Committee 1952–1954
- Chairman, Advertising Committee 1952–1954
- Manager of Supplies, London Leather Carvers Guild 1952
- Advertising Chairman 1953
- Council 1960
Where this comes from
Life and work
- In the press
- The Toronto Star reported his election to associate standing at the 1953 Annual Meeting.
From “Leathercraft Body Holds Annual Meet”, the Toronto Star, 19 June 1953, p. 30.