STANSFIELD, Herbert Henry
Herbert Henry Stansfield was born at 49 Alexandra Road, Nether Hallam, Sheffield, Yorkshire on 1 May 1878 and baptised at the Church of St Silas on Broomhall Street, Sheffield on 19 February 1879, son of John William Stansfield (1854-1945), a cabinet-case maker, and his wife Sarah Ann née Revitt (1858-1895), who married at Sheffield on 25 November 1877. In 1891, Herbert was a 12-year-old errand boy, living at Harrington Place, Ecclesall Bierlow, Sheffield, Yorkshire with his parents, 36-year-old John and 32-year-old Sarah, with three siblings, Byron 10, Annie Medora 4 and Blanche Ada 2, who were all born at Sheffield. Herbert's mother died in 1895 and his father married again in 1898, Annette Bearman and by 1901 the family had moved to 100 Albert Road, Heeley, Sheffield where Herbert was a 22-year-old 'art craftsman-designer', working on his own account but went on to study at Manchester School of Art where in 1905 he won two years free tuition at the Royal College of Art. Around 1908 Herbert moved to Ipswich Stansfield where he spoke regularly in Ipswich in support of women’s suffrage and in 1911, a 33-year-old craft work teacher at Ipswich School of Art, living at The Old Mill House, Witnesham, Suffolk with a 38-year-old wife Hephzibah, who was born at Gillingham, Kent and who had been married for one year. He exhibited at the London Salon in 1911 from Witnesham, Suffolk. Hephzibah had been a keen member of the suffrage movement since 1908 and a member of the Ipswich committee from 1912 and was supported in her suffrage movement by her husband Herbert. In 1915 Stansfield took a position as the Director of the Cromer Guild of Handicraft and in 1921 he was combining teaching duties at the City College Norwich with his own art metal work and sculpture business working from home in Church Street, Cromer, Norfolk. In the 1921 census Herbert was a 43 year old employer art metal worker and teacher living at Church Street, Cromer with a 48 year old wife Hephzibah Fanny, a hand loom weaver who was born at Gillingham, no marriages have been found. Herbert and Hephzibah left Liverpool on 15 September 1922 on the 'Regina' for Canada. Herbert and his wife Hephzibah, a weaver, were organisers of a Craft Exhibition in Ontario in January/February 1931 and worked for the Ontario College of Art. Herbert was the author of 'Sculpture and the Sculptor's Art' (1918). Herbert Henry Stansfield died in Canada on 9 May 1937.