Harry Douglas Clark Pepler (1878–1951), accepted as Hilary Pepler, was an English printer, biographer and poet. He was an accessory of both Eric Gill and G. K. Chesterton, alive on publications in which they had an interest. He was additionally a architect with Gill and Desmond Chute in 1920 of a Catholic association of craftsmen at Ditchling, Sussex, that took the name The Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic.
Saturday, 17 December 2011
Life
His accomplishments was Quaker.1 He was built-in at Eastbourne and accomplished at Bootham School.2 He met Gill in Hammersmith, London, during World War I, through the Hampshire Abode Workshops. At that time Pepler was a amusing artisan for the London County Council, and organised the aboriginal London academy commons service.3 Pepler and Gill were calm mostly amenable for the Ditchling abode magazine, The Game.
He founded in 1915 or 1916 the St. Dominic's Press. It published, amidst added books, important editions for the Ulysses Bookshop in High Holborn, London endemic by Jacob Schwartz, to 1937. These included works of James Joyce (in actuality charlatan editions),4 but additionally George Bernard Shaw, John Drinkwater, Augustus John, Chesterton and John Collier.
He became a Roman Catholic catechumen in 1916; and abutting the Dominicans as a lay affiliate in 1918. At that time he afflicted his name to Hilary. Financial quarrels amid Pepler and Gill may accept led to Gill abrogation the Ditchling accumulation in 1924.5 Pepler was affected to leave the Guild in 1934.6
After Chesterton's afterlife in 1936, Pepler assisted Reginald Jebb, son-in-law of Hilaire Belloc, in active The Weekly Review, the almsman distributist advertisement to G. K.'s Weekly. Stephen Dorril's Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism (2006) mentions Pepler in passing, as a affiliate of the British People's Party in 1945.
He founded in 1915 or 1916 the St. Dominic's Press. It published, amidst added books, important editions for the Ulysses Bookshop in High Holborn, London endemic by Jacob Schwartz, to 1937. These included works of James Joyce (in actuality charlatan editions),4 but additionally George Bernard Shaw, John Drinkwater, Augustus John, Chesterton and John Collier.
He became a Roman Catholic catechumen in 1916; and abutting the Dominicans as a lay affiliate in 1918. At that time he afflicted his name to Hilary. Financial quarrels amid Pepler and Gill may accept led to Gill abrogation the Ditchling accumulation in 1924.5 Pepler was affected to leave the Guild in 1934.6
After Chesterton's afterlife in 1936, Pepler assisted Reginald Jebb, son-in-law of Hilaire Belloc, in active The Weekly Review, the almsman distributist advertisement to G. K.'s Weekly. Stephen Dorril's Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism (2006) mentions Pepler in passing, as a affiliate of the British People's Party in 1945.
Family
He affiliated Clare Whiteman in 1904; they had three sons and three daughters.7
His son David Pepler affiliated Betty Gill, babe of Eric Gill.
Pepler's son, Fr. Conrad Pepler, O.P., ran the Dominican appointment centre at Spode House, Staffordshire, for abounding years, and founded Spode Music Week.
His son David Pepler affiliated Betty Gill, babe of Eric Gill.
Pepler's son, Fr. Conrad Pepler, O.P., ran the Dominican appointment centre at Spode House, Staffordshire, for abounding years, and founded Spode Music Week.
Works
The Care Committee. The Child & the Parent (1914)
The Devil's Devices or, Control against Service. With Woodcuts by Eric Gill (1915)
Three Poems (St. Dominic's Press, 1918)
Nisi Dominus (1919)
Concerning Dragons (St. Dominic's Press, 1921)
The Law the Lawyers Know About (Saint Dominic's Press, 1923)
The Service for the Burial of the Dead according to the use of the Orthodox Greek Church in London. The Greek Text with a apprehension in English (1922)
In Petra. Actuality a Sequel to 'Nisi Dominus' (Saint Dominic's Press, 1923)
Libellus lapidum (1924) with David Jones
Judas or the betrayal: a comedy in one act (St. Dominic's Press 1926)
Pilate - A Passion Comedy (St Dominic's Press, 1928)
Plays For Puppets (St. Dominic's Press, 1929)
A Nativity Play: The Three Wise Men (1929)
Le Boeuf et L'Ane et deux autres pieces cascade marionettes (St. Dominic's Press 1930)
St. George and the Dragon: A One Act Comedy (1932)
Mimes Sacred & Profane (St. Dominic's Press, 1932)
The Hand Press: An Essay Written and Printed by Hand for the Society of Typographic Arts, Chicago (1934)
The Field Is Won (1935) play
The Four Minstrels of Bremen and "The Two Robbers", actuality added Plays for Puppets (St. Dominic's Press)
A Letter About Eric Gill (1950)
The Devil's Devices or, Control against Service. With Woodcuts by Eric Gill (1915)
Three Poems (St. Dominic's Press, 1918)
Nisi Dominus (1919)
Concerning Dragons (St. Dominic's Press, 1921)
The Law the Lawyers Know About (Saint Dominic's Press, 1923)
The Service for the Burial of the Dead according to the use of the Orthodox Greek Church in London. The Greek Text with a apprehension in English (1922)
In Petra. Actuality a Sequel to 'Nisi Dominus' (Saint Dominic's Press, 1923)
Libellus lapidum (1924) with David Jones
Judas or the betrayal: a comedy in one act (St. Dominic's Press 1926)
Pilate - A Passion Comedy (St Dominic's Press, 1928)
Plays For Puppets (St. Dominic's Press, 1929)
A Nativity Play: The Three Wise Men (1929)
Le Boeuf et L'Ane et deux autres pieces cascade marionettes (St. Dominic's Press 1930)
St. George and the Dragon: A One Act Comedy (1932)
Mimes Sacred & Profane (St. Dominic's Press, 1932)
The Hand Press: An Essay Written and Printed by Hand for the Society of Typographic Arts, Chicago (1934)
The Field Is Won (1935) play
The Four Minstrels of Bremen and "The Two Robbers", actuality added Plays for Puppets (St. Dominic's Press)
A Letter About Eric Gill (1950)
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