Cotmania. Vol. VI. 1930-31

A WORD FOR SCARBOROUGH
Your Art Critic, writing about Lord Leighton,
alleges that one of the handicaps to his greatness as an artist was the fact that he was born
at Scarborough. As a matter of fact the contribution of Scarborough to modern culture is
by no means negligible. Two members of a
family triumvirate of poets, which agitates the
reading public to-day, were born at Scar­borough. An architect who was lately elected
an A.R.A. and who has added to the number
of dignified buildings in the City of London,
was born at Scarborough. The present Direc­tor of the National Gallery, if not actually born
at Scarborough, spent the greatest part of his
life there and was at one time mayor of the
borough.—Mr. S. D. Kitson, Arts Club, 40,
Dover-street, W.1.

'The Times'
Dec: 9. 1930.