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Leonard Knight Elmhirst FRSA (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.
12 de jul. de 2019 · 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.
18 de abr. de 1974 · Leonard Knight, Elmhirst, an internationally known agricultural economist and educational innovator, died Tuesday in Beyerly Hills, Calif., where he had recently moved. He was to...
Leonard Knight Elmhirst. Born 6 Jun 1893 in Worsborough, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. Son of William Heaton Elmhirst and Mary (Knight) Elmhirst. Brother of William Elmhirst, Ernest Christopher Elmhirst and Thomas Walker Elmhirst.
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- June 6, 1893
- Dorothy Payne (Whitney) Elmhirst
- April 16, 1974
Leonard Knight Elmhirst 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.
In 1920, she met Leonard Knight Elmhirst (1893–1974), an Englishman from a Yorkshire landowning family, who was then studying agriculture at Cornell University, and was seeking support for Cornell's Cosmopolitan Club which provided amenities for foreign students.
Leonard Elmhirst was born in Yorkshire in 1893. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and later studied Agriculture at Cornell University, USA. When Rabindranath visited America in 1920-21, one of the few positive outcomes of this trip was his meeting with Elmhirst.
