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23 de jul. de 2023 · The Institute of Rural Reconstruction was founded on February 6, 1922 with Leonard Knight Elmhirst as its first Director and Rabindranath named it Sriniketan. Rathindranath Tagore, Santosh Chandra Mazumdar, Gour Gopal Ghosh, Kalimohan Ghosh and Kim Taro Kasahara joined Elmhirst.
In 1925, Whitney married Leonard Knight Elmhirst, president of the Cosmopolitan Club at Cornell University. whom she had met while planning a union building at the university to honor her husband. The marriage surprised the social world as did the couple's subsequent move to England.
Samuel Higginbottom (1874–1958), Presbyterian missionary in India, 1903–45, set a modern standard for agricultural demonstration, principally through his Agricultural Institute at Allahabad. Elmhirst wrote the story of Cornell’s Straight Hall in The Straight and Its Origin (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Alumni Association, 1975). From ...
Leonard Knight Elmhirst Visva-Bharati , 1975 - Agriculture - 185 pages Experience, 1921-22, of working in Santiniketan and Siriniketan, educational establishments founded by Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941; extracts from a diary of an English agriculturist.
Leonard Knight Elmhirst (6 June 1893 – 16 April 1974) was a philanthropist and agronomist who worked extensively in India. He was co-founder with his wife Dorothy of the Dartington Hall project in progressive education and rural reconstruction.
Leonard Knight Elmhirst and his wife Dorothy founded the Dartington Hall Trust in 1925. Thomas Elmhirst served in the Navy and Air Force and became the First Commander in Chief of the Indian Air Force. James Victor Elmhirst served in the 3rd York and Lancaster Regiment in the First World War. Richard Elmhirst - may have become a farmer.
1 2 Leonard Knight Elmhirst, The Straight and Its Origin, 1975, OCLC 2046429 originally serialized in Cornell Alumni News, 1974–75; ↑ The Elmhirsts of Dartington, The Creation of a Utopian Community, 344.
