Robert Edgar Stone
Robert Edgar Stone (1903-1990) was born in London in 1903. Stone unfortunately had a childhood accident that nearly resulted in the loss of his arm which heavily affected his education. Due to this it narrowed the possible trades he could enter and at 14 he began training in the silversmithing department of London’s Central School of Arts and Crafts. His education at the School resulted in a two year scholarship at the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths which allowed him to travel throughout Western Europe whilst training in Paris, France at the La Maison Henin. Once he had finished his education Stone set up his own workshop and went on to become an extremely well reputed silversmith crafting handmade commissions.
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In 1939 he was made a liveryman of the Goldsmiths Company. His workshop lay dormant during World War II while he worked on torpedo testing in Scotland. After the war he continued with his work and took on multiple apprentices at his workshop at 20 Garrick Street, London. Stone operated out of his London workshop until 1964 after which he moved north to the west coast of Scotland to his home in Portincaple. He retired in 1980 and died ten years later in 1990. His papers are archived at the Victoria & Albert Museum Archive of Art and Design and Stone made multiple notable works including a cross and candlesticks for the Temple Church in London, an altar cross for the Wren Chapel, Pembroke College, Cambridge and a rose bowl made from palladium for the Institute of Metallurgy as a gift to Princess Margaret.