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Apprenticeship lineage

Silversmithing

The teacher-to-student record of silversmithing as the archive has identified it. 5 records in the register.

The line

Nodes that carry an archive ID link to their subject page. The tree reads top-down from the earliest teacher to the most recent apprentice.

  • George Hart d. 1973
    silversmith
    • Henry Hart d. 1990
      silversmith from 1930 · Hart's, the Old Silk Mill, Chipping Campden · AP-0010
      • David Hart MK-0010
        silversmith from 1956 · Hart's, the Old Silk Mill, Chipping Campden · AP-0011
        • William Hart MK-0011
          silversmith from 1990 · Hart's, the Old Silk Mill, Chipping Campden · AP-0012
        • Derek Elliott MK-0012
          silversmith from 1982 · Hart's, the Old Silk Mill, Chipping Campden · AP-0013
        • Julian Hart MK-0013
          silversmith from 1994 · Hart's, the Old Silk Mill, Chipping Campden · AP-0014

All records

Every apprenticeship record in this lineage, listed in sequence. Each carries a permanent AP-NNNN archive ID and is citable in its own right.

  1. AP-0010 from 1930

    George Hart → Henry Hart

    Hart's, the Old Silk Mill, Chipping Campden

    George Hart came to Chipping Campden with C. R. Ashbee's Guild of Handicraft in 1902 and kept the silver workshop going after the Guild dissolved in 1908. He taught the trade to his son Henry, who joined the Old Silk Mill workshop in 1930 and went on to run it for decades. The first father-to-son transmission in a Hart line that has now reached four generations.

    Source: Hart Silversmiths Trust

  2. AP-0011 from 1956

    Henry Hart → David Hart

    Hart's, the Old Silk Mill, Chipping Campden

    Henry Hart brought his son David into the workshop in 1956 and taught him to raise silver by hand at the same bench his own father George had worked. David has been at the Old Silk Mill ever since - seventy years this July - and is the third generation of the line.

    Source: The England Archive, JN-0017

  3. AP-0012 from 1990

    David Hart → William Hart

    Hart's, the Old Silk Mill, Chipping Campden

    David Hart taught his son William, who came to the bench from computer science and joined the workshop in 1990, the year his grandfather Henry died. William is the fourth generation; the transmission David received from Henry he has passed on in turn, and now carries the workshop forward.

    Source: The England Archive, JN-0017

  4. AP-0013 from 1982

    David Hart → Derek Elliott

    Hart's, the Old Silk Mill, Chipping Campden

    Derek Elliott was recruited from Chipping Campden School in 1982, aged eighteen and still sitting his A-levels, and apprenticed to David Hart - taught both by David and by David's father Henry, who was still at the workshop then. The only silversmith in the room not a Hart by blood, he has been at the bench forty-four years: proof that the transmission runs by craft as well as by family.

    Source: Hart Silversmiths, William Hart

  5. AP-0014 from 1994

    David Hart → Julian Hart

    Hart's, the Old Silk Mill, Chipping Campden

    Julian Hart - David's nephew, son of David's brother Basil - joined the workshop in 1994 after two years of motor-vehicle engineering at college. David asked him in to help with a busy order book while he looked for a job; he learned the trade at the bench and has been there ever since. A second line of the family, alongside David's son William.

    Source: Hart Silversmiths, William Hart