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Ruskin

[ ruhs-kin ]

noun

  1. John, 1819–1900, English author, art critic, and social reformer.


Ruskin

/ ˈrʌskɪn /

noun

  1. RuskinJohn18191900MEnglishARTS AND CRAFTS: criticSOCIAL SCIENCE: social reformer John . 1819–1900, English art critic and social reformer. He was a champion of the Gothic Revival and the Pre-Raphaelites and saw a close connection between art and morality. From about 1860 he argued vigorously for social and economic planning. His works include Modern Painters (1843–60), The Stones of Venice (1851–53), Unto this Last (1862), Time and Tide (1867), and Fors Clavigera (1871–84)
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In the settlement agreed in January, when he relinquished his claim, Mr Smith paid £25,000 towards the Ruskin Museum's legal costs.

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He left school four years later, though he subsequently studied at Ruskin College, a higher education institution in Oxford, and at the University of Hull, the city that became his home.

He then studied at Ruskin College in Oxford, before entering politics.

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In 1962, he went to Ruskin College, Oxford, where he got a diploma in economics and politics, and later to Hull University to study for an economics degree.

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Prof John Gardner of Anglia Ruskin University and his team examined how what was then the biggest building on earth was built so quickly.

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