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About Arthur Penty
- Arthur Joseph Penty (17 March 1875 – 1937) was an English architect and writer on Guild socialism and distributism.
- He was first a Fabian socialist, and follower of Victorian thinkers William Morris and John Ruskin.
- He is generally credited with the formulation of a Christian socialist form of the medieval guild, as an alternative basis for economic life.
- Penty was the elder of the two architect sons of Walter Green Penty of York, designer of the York Institute of Art, Science and Literature.
- While a pupil and assistant with his father, Penty absorbed the spirit of the Arts and Crafts Movement and the progressive movement in Glasgow.
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