Geoffrey Bagley

Geoffrey Bagley

Geoffrey Spink Bagley (3 November 1901 – 1992) was an English artist, museum curator, politician, historian and writer.^[1]

In 1942 the Wartime Information Board and the National Film Board of Canada hired Bagley as a graphic artist. He created wartime propaganda and recruitment posters for the Royal Navy.^[2]

Selected works

• The Ancient Town of Rye (1958)
• Some Inns & Ale-houses of Rye, 1650-1950 (1958)
• William Holloway, Historian of Rye: a Study of His Life and Times, 1785-1870 (1963)
• Old inns & Ale-houses of Rye (1965)
• The Ancient Town of Tye (1969)
• Edwardian Rye from Contemporary Photographs (1974)
• The Story of the Ypres Tower and the Rye Museum (1975)
• A Connoisseurs Guide to Rye (1979)
• The Book of Rye: an Ancient Town of the Cinque Ports Confederation (1982)
• A Picture Guide to Romney Marsh and Adjoining Levels (1986)^[3]

Notes

1. "Geoffrey Bagley, Esq. Ryer Extraordinary," at the Wayback Machine (archived 26 July 2011) Rye Castle Museum; citing Rosemary Bagley, "Geoffrey Spink Bagley 1901-1992," Rye’s Own (UK). No 144, January 2002.
2. Morse, Jennifer. "War Art: Geoffrey Bagley," Legion Magazine, 11 October 2010.
3. WorldCat Identities: Bagley, Geoffrey Spink