About Bernard Rackham
Lived 1876 – 1964 (aged 87–88). Bernard Rackham was a British medievalist and art historian.
Bernard Rackham (26 July 1876, Lambeth, London – 13 February 1964, Liss, Hampshire ) was an English writer and lecturer on ceramics and stained glass and spent his career as a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He is known for his pioneering research on Italian maiolica.
Education and career Bernard Rackham matriculated in October 1895 at Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating there B.A. 1898 and M.A. 1907. At the Ceramics Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum he was from 1898 to 1924 an Assistant and from 1924 to 1938 a Keeper. Rackham contributed over 50 articles to The Burlington Magazine
Family Bernard Rackham married in 1909. Another brother, Maurice Rackham (1879–1927), was killed by an avalanche at Zürs.
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Who was Bernard Rackham?
pottery and maijolica scholar and medievalist (1876–1964)
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Bernard Rackham was born in 1876 in London.
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Bernard Rackham died in 1964 in London.
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Bernard Rackham was a medievalist and art historian.
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