Charles Joseph Faulkner

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Charles Joseph Faulkner (1833–1892) was a British mathematician and fellow of University College, Oxford and a founding partner of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Co. where he worked with his sisters Kate Faulkner and Lucy Faulkner Orrinsmith.

Artistic career

Faulkner was part of a group of

Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., along with the Pre-Raphaelite artists Morris, Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, as well as engineer P. P. Marshall, and architect Philip Webb.[1][2] Faulkner participated in the firm's early design commissions including painting the chancel roof of St Michael's Church, Brighton. Faulkner's sisters Kate Faulkner and Lucy Faulkner Orrinsmith were also associated with the firm as artists and designers.[1][3][4] Two of Charles Faulkner's cartoons or design drawings for stained glass, part of a series depicting the story of Dives and Lazarus, are in the Victoria and Albert Museum.[5]

Oxford career

Doubting the firm would ever achieve a sound financial footing, Faulkner resigned as financial manager in 1864 and returned to his fellowship at Oxford, although he maintained his ties to his erstwhile partners, accompanying Morris and

Eastern Question Association in 1876, and invited Morris to the 1883 meeting in University College hall where Morris announced his conversion to socialism. Both joined the Socialist League in 1885. Faulkner was active in the movement, and persuaded the Radical Association to rename itself the Oxford Socialist League.[7]

One of the first acts of the Oxford branch of the League was invite Morris and Eleanor Marx to a meeting at the Holywell Music Room. This was the occasion of Morris’s first major unscripted speech. About 400 persons were present – 100 or so friends of Morris and Faulkner, 250 neutrals, and 30 avowed anti-socialists.  The latter kicked up a storm, howling down Morris’s words and then letting off a stink bomb.  Scuffles broke out and Faulkner suspended the meeting.[8]

At Oxford, Faulkner served as bursar (1864–1882), dean of degrees (1875–1889), registrar (1866–1882) and librarian (1884–1889). He resigned his Oxford fellowship after suffering a stroke in 1888 and died in 1892.[3][7]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Waggoner 2003, pp. 33–36.
  2. ^ Harvey & Press 1991, p. 38.
  3. ^ a b c "Sussex Parish Churches". Archived from the original on 9 July 2013. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
  4. ^ Parry 1996, pp. 13, 16, 258.
  5. ^ Parry 1996, p. 121.
  6. ^ Parry 1996, pp. 18, 57.
  7. ^ a b "The Red House Circle - Marshall & Faulkner". Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 9 October 2010.
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