Eric Gill

Born 1882 – Died 1940
Gill was born in Brighton. He took up inscription work in 1903. He ran the St. Dominic’s Press from Ditchling, Sussex, where he lived for a time with David Jones, who followed him to his second community of artists and craftsmen at Capel-y-Ffin in Wales. Gill designed many typefaces, two of which are still in common use, Monotype Perpetua and Gill Sans. He was also well respected for his sculpture and lithography, and produced illustrations for editions of the Four Gospels and of The Canterbury Tales.