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Name: MITFORD-BARBERTON, Ivan Graham ARCA, ARBS, FRGS

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Nee: son of Henry Barber (later Mitford-Barberton) and Mary

Birth Date: 1 Feb 1896 Somerset East, South Africa

Death Date: 9 June 1976 Hout Bay, Western Cape

First Date: 1922

Profession: Sculptor. Returned to SA after the war

Area: 1922 'Merrowdown' Soy, 1930 Kiminini, 'Cavendale' Kitale

Married: 1. In Nairobi 27 Aug 1921 Cecile Georgina Cotterell Hoole b. 1897, div 1939, d. 1952 2. 1939 Pamela Sybil Gibbs

Children: 1. Elaine (1923); Roland Atherstone (1927-2003); Michael Francis Alfred (1932) 2. Catherine Mary (1945); Nicholas (1946)

Author: The Barbers of the Peak (1934), The Bowkers of Tharfield (with his brother Raymond,1952)

Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Curtis, Red 22, Web, Burke, Bowkers, Gazette

War Service: served in GEA Campaign 1915-18

School: St Andrew's College, Grahamstown and Royal College of Art, S. Kensington

General Information:

Curtis - p. 118 - 'Trans Nzoia: The Mitford Barberton Family'
Web - A sculptor of portrait busts, animals and figurines who travelled a lot and it was in Kenya that he found many of his inspirations. Worked in wood, stone, bronze and ivory.
Burke - Art lecturer, Univ. of Cape Town 1937-61, has works of art in many S African galleries, presented a new antelope from Mount Elgon, Cephalophus barbertoni, to the British Museum 1922
Bowkers - Ivan had studied sculpture in England, France and Italy and was more interested in art than in maize farming. When in 1930 the depression was at its lowest ebb, he gave his farm 'Caverndale' to Renshaw to manage and settled in Capetown, where he is lecturer in Sculpture at the University. Since then he has become well known as a sculptor and his work has been bought by most leading galleries in South Africa. He has decorated many of the public buildings, including the South African Mutual Life Assurance Building in Capetown, which has a carved granite frieze over 380 feet long and also 9 granite figures of native types, each over 13 feet high. Ivan is an Associate of the Royal College of Art and has recently been elected an Associate of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. He served in german East Africa from 1915-1919.
Gazette 12/4/1922 - Brands Registered during quarter ending 31/3/1922 - I. Mitford Barberton, Merrowdown, PO Soy - GB5
Gazette - 26/9/1923 - Voters Register - Plateau North - Ivan Mitford Barberton, Farmer, PO Soy

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