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William 'Merry' Kimber (1872–1961) was a famous Headington Quarry morris dancer and musician, and a key figure in the English Morris Dance and Folk Music Revival of the early twentieth century. Kimber also played the concertina for his local Morris Dancers, the Headington Quarry Morris Men, and he was the musician when they were encountered by Cecil Sharp in 1899, who noted down his first Morris tunes from Kimber's playing. Subsequently Kimber acted as Sharp's informant on the Headington Quarry Morris tradition, and as his assistant at lectures – Sharp would lecture on them while Kimber demonstrated the dances and played the concertina. Anthony Morris was born in Oxford in 1938 and graduated from the Royal Academy in 1961 after three years in the painting faculty under Peter Greenham, CBE, RA.

English Folk Dance and Song Society

London

Title

William 'Merry' Kimber (1872–1961)

Date

exhibited 1962

Medium

oil on board

Measurements

H 49 x W 39 cm

Accession number

EFDSSART003

Acquisition method

gift from The Morris Ring

Work type

Painting

English Folk Dance and Song Society

Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London, Greater London NW1 7AY England

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Artist or maker

Anthony Morris

b.1938

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John Nowell Linton Myres (1920–1989) Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
The Folklorist, Cecil Sharp, Meeting William Kimber in 1899 English Folk Dance and Song Society
Mary Morris, Post Office Assistant Royal Society of Portrait Painters People's Portraits collection at Girton College, University of Cambridge
Dick Prosser, Farmer Royal Society of Portrait Painters People's Portraits collection at Girton College, University of Cambridge
Muhammad Abdus Salam (1926–1996), Theoretical Physicist St John's College, University of Cambridge
Professor John McManners (1916–2006) All Souls College, University of Oxford
Robert Grant, Furniture Maker Royal Society of Portrait Painters People's Portraits collection at Girton College, University of Cambridge
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