BADELEY, [Jack] Henry John Fanshawe

1874 - 1951

Henry John Fanshawe Badeley was born at Elswick, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on 27 June 1874, elder child and only son of Captain Henry Badeley (1842–1881), of Guy Harlings, Chelmsford, Essex, and his wife, Blanche Alicia Allhusen (1847-23 December 1929), daughter of Christian Augustus Henry Allhusen of Elswick Hall and of Stoke Court, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire who married at St Paul's Church, Newcastle-on-Tyne on 9 June 1873. Jack, as he was known, was educated at Radley College and Trinity College, Oxford and represented Oxford against Cambridge in athletics 1895-1897, running in the quarter mile. In 1897, Badeley won first place in a civil service competition for a clerkship in the parliament office and left Oxford without taking a degree. After studying at the Royal College of Art under Frank Short (1857-1945), Badeley was elected an associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers and appointed honorary secretary (1911–1921), being elected a fellow in 1914 and exhibited with them regularly until his death. His combined interest in heraldry and line engraving turned his talent for the latter towards the engraving of bookplates and his work in this field became widely known and he executed commissions for many individuals and institutions, including plates for the library of the House of Lords and as Jack Badeley, later as Henry J. Badeley or Lord Badeley, he exhibited at the Royal Academy 1911-1951 and at the Royal Miniature Society. In 1919, Badeley became principal clerk of the judicial office and judicial taxing officer of the House of Lords, but the turning point of Badeley's career came in 1930 when appointed clerk assistant of the parliaments, while retaining the principal judicial clerkship, which opened for Badeley and for his successors, an avenue to the top of their profession. Badeley reached this pinnacle in four years, becoming clerk of the parliaments in 1934. Made a CBE in 1920 for his work as county director of auxiliary hospitals and voluntary aid detachments in the county of London (1917–1919), and appointed KCB in 1935. He retired, after a five-year extension, in 1949 and created Baron Badeley of Badley in the county of Suffolk. Henry John Fanshawe Badeley died at 35 Weymouth Street, London on 27 September 1951. He was unmarried and the peerage became extinct.

Royal Academy Exhibits
from 36 Buckingham Gate, London
1911 1383 Book-plate
         1384 Book-plate
         1387 Book-plate
from 2 Morpeth Terrace, Westminster
1912 1413 Book-plate
1913 1520 Book-plate
1914 1241 Book-plate
         1242 Book-plate
1915 207 Book-plate
1925 1017 Book-plate for the House of Lords - line engraving
1926 1023 Book-plate - line engraving
1927 1143 Book-plate - line engraving
1928 1200 Book-plate - line engraving
         1203 Book-plate - line engraving
1938 1216 Book-plate - line engraving


from 2 Morpeth Terrace, London SW 1
1951 980 Bookplate for H.M. The Queen of Denmark - line engraving

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Works by This Artist