James Austen's Family
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Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh [4] continued.
President of the British Federation of Master Printers 1922–1923, representing the Federation in France, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Germany and the United States.
Chairman of the Joint Industrial Council of the Printing Trade 1927–1928.
President of the Bibliographical Society 1934–1936.
President of the Huguenot Society 1934–1937.
Treasurer and Chairman of the Committee of Management of the National Benevolent Institution 1936–1945.
Governor of St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
Director of the French (Huguenot) Hospital.
Chevalier of the Order of Leopold ((Belgium).
Wrote, in 1913, with William Austen-Leigh, his uncle – 'Life and Letters of Jane Austen'.
In 1942, 'Austen Papers 1704–1856'.
In 1943, 'Jane Austen and Lyme Regis'.
Also author of several books on Eton College.
Editor of the Master Printer's Annual since 1920.
Editor of Etoniana since 1904.
Married, first, July 28th 1906, Vera Mercedes, daughter of Arthur Trench. She died December 11th 1927.
Married, secondly, May 14th 1941, Margaret, daughter of Col. E. H. Thruston, D.L.
Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
Charles Raymond Austen-Leigh. [4]
Born November 23rd 1874.
Educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford.
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