Verney L Danvers (1895 - 1973)

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Reference number	1996/4823
Name	Verney Lionel Danby Danvers
Born	1895
Collection	People
Object type	Person
Completeness	58% 58% ?

• Biography

  Attribute	Value
  Biography	Verney Danvers was a poster artist who ran a school of commercial art. He had commissions from fashion and interior design companies. He designed a number of posters for LCCC Trams, Shell, the LNER, the Southern Railway, British Railways and also for the fashion house Bobby & Co Ltd. It is has been suggested that Danvers studied at Hornsey College of Art in 1911. Danvers settled in Canada and signed up for war service in the Royal Canadian Garrison Artillery as a clerk. In later years he moved to London and set up the Court School of Commercial Art.
  Employment	Designed posters for the Underground Group and London County Council Tramways, 1922-1929
  Role	Artist,