Lilian Josephine Pocock [SEP] date of death
Lilian Josephine Pocock
Lilian Josephine Pocock (1883–1974) was a stained glass artist who provided stained glass for a number of buildings, including Ulverston Victoria High School, The King's School and Ely Cathedral. She was also a theatrical costume designer, book illustrator and watercolourist. In her later years, failing eyesight prevented her from continuing her work in stained glass. After some years of retirement she died in 1974.
Early years and studies.
Lilian Josephine Pocock, born on 6 May 1883, was the daughter of
Montmorencys were to live in Winchester. Miles was to inherit a baronetcy in 1959.
In 1939 she completed one of her finest windows, a three-light memorial window to her father in the Tonbridge School Chapel, which complemented windows in the chapel by Whall, Parsons and Lilian Josephine Pocock. Unfortunately, all the Tonbridge windows were destroyed in a fire which ravaged the chapel in 1988.
Although she became crippled by arthritis in her later years, she was able to work until a few days before her death on