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Peter Davidson is senior research fellow of Campion Hall, University of Oxford. He was formerly Professor and Scholar-Keeper of the University’s Collections in the University of Aberdeen.
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Luke Miller is Archdeacon of London and a Chaplain to HM the King. He has been an Honorary Research Fellow of S Stephen’s House. His biography of Fr George Congreve, A Life-Long Springtime, was published in 2021. In it he explores the influence Fr Congreve had on the young Ninian Comper.
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Ayla Lepine’s research explores connections beteween theology and art history in modern Britain. Following her PhD on the Gothic Revival at the Courtauld, she held positions at Yale, Nottingham and Essex. She is also an Anglican priest, and is Associate Rector at St James’s Piccadilly in London. She has lectured and published widely on Comper, including journal articles in Visual Resources and the Journal of Theology and Sexuality.
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Grandson of Arthur Bucknall, Sir Ninian Comper’s assistant and “My Other Pair of Eyes”. Retired Architect. Wrote undergraduate dissertation on Comper tutored by Anthony Symondson and James Stevens Curl. SPAB Scholar. Worked on National Trust Properties with Rodney Melville including Canons Ashby and Calke Abbey. Landmark Trust’s Architectural Adviser for Palladio’s Villa Saraceno and other projects. Designer for several organ cases including the Drake Organ, Palace of Westminster. Parish Church work in Midlands and West Country. Member of Founding Committee for William Morris Craft Fellowships.
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Harry Spain is an architectural historian based at Pusey House in Oxford where he is overseeing restoration work to the Chapel. His research interest focuses on the Gothic Revival, and in particular nineteenth- and early twentieth-century church-building. He is currently working on a biography of the architect Benjamin Ferrey (1810-1880), which is set for commercial publication in 2024.
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Dr David Frazer Lewis is an architectural historian whose interests include the architecture of modern Britain and the United States, the design of sacred architecture, and the Gothic Revival. Prior to joining Oxford's Department for Continuing Education, he was an Assistant Professor at the Notre Dame School of Architecture. He has experience in museums and heritage, as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Yale Center for British Art, and has worked for architecture firms in San Francisco and London that specialise in historic conservation. Dr Lewis holds a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University, an MPhil from Cambridge, and a doctorate from the University of Oxford.
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Dr Alan Powers specialises in the history of mid twentieth century architecture and related visual arts, with a particular interest in alternatives to modernism. He is the author of Britain in the series Modern Architectures in History, and Bauhaus Goes West. He is a founding editor of the journal Twentieth Century Architecture and the monograph series Twentieth Century Architects, published with the Twentieth Century Society of which he is a past Chairman.
