Arthur Penty

Arthur Joseph Penty (17 March 1875 – 1937) was an English architect and writer on guild socialism and distributism. He was first a Fabian socialist, and follower of Victorian thinkers William Morris and John Ruskin.[1] He is generally credited with the formulation of a Christian socialist form of the medieval guild, as an alternative basis for economic life.[2]

Penty was the elder of the two architect sons of Walter Green Penty of York, designer of the York Institute of Art, Science and Literature. While a pupil and assistant with his father, Penty absorbed the spirit of the Arts and Crafts Movement and the progressive movement in Glasgow.

  1. ^ Stephen Dorril, Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism, p. 73, calls Penty a disciple of Morris.
  2. ^ Gray, Alexander Stuart (1986). Edwardian Architecture: A Biographical Dictionary. p. 283. Retrieved 31 December 2020.