Painter, designer, mural artist, stage designer and teacher, born in Twickenham, Middlesex. Dick Hosking was married to the sculptor Alma Ramsey. He was a student of Bournemouth College of Art, 1922–5, and Royal College of Art, 1925–9. Held several teaching posts, latterly being principal of Ryland Memorial School of Art in West Bromwich, 1943–7, then principal of College of Art in Coventry, 1947–64. Prominent in bodies concerned with art education. Showed at AIA, Leicester Society of Artists and elsewhere. Best-known public commissions were the design for the Martyrs of Coventry mosaic in Broadgate House, Coventry, 1951, and a memorial stained glass window in St Nicholas Church, Warwick, 1964. A founder-member of the Warwick Society, in retirement he worked for many years in the Warwickshire county archives restoring documents and maps and was involved in church restoration.