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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.
In 1920 she met Leonard Knight Elmhirst, son of an English Clergyman and a student at Cornell University, who assisted her in her plans to build Willard Straight Hall at the University. Over a period of years, Leonard courted Dorothy, and together they planned their experiment in education, research, rural regeneration and the arts.
Leonard Knight Elmhirst (6 June 1893 – 16 April 1974) was a British philanthropist and agronomist who worked extensively in India. He co-founded with his wife, Dorothy , the Dartington Hall project in progressive education and rural reconstruction.
Leonard Knight Elmhirst (6 giugno 1893 - 16 aprile 1974) era un filantropo e un agronomo che lavorò ampiamente in India. È stato co-fondatore di sua moglie Dorothy del progetto Dartington Hall in materia di educazione progressiva e ricostruzione rurale.
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.
In 1932 Alfred O Elmhirst negotiated the re-purchase of Houndhill on behalf of his brother, the noted philanthropist Leonard Knight Elmhirst. Houndhill then underwent substantial restoration. In 1950 it was gifted by Leonard Elmhirst to A.O.Elmhirst who lived at Houndhill from 1932 until his death in 1995.
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.
