Alexander T. Hollingsworth
Date of birth: 1847/1848
Date of death: 31 December 1928
Place of death: Hampstead, London
Category: collector
Identity:
He was the managing director of the newspaper Engineering Ltd. In the 1901 census his age is given as 54 and his wife, Charlotte E. Hollingsworth, as 52, and they had five daughters, all living at 20 Belsize Grove, London.
Life:
He was a distinguished collector, the author of Old Blue and White Nankin China, London, 1891. Nankin Porcelain from his collection was exhibited on the shelves of Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room y178 when it was shown by Messrs Obach in London in 1904.
Bibliography:
UK census, 1901, Ancestry.com; Hollingsworth, A. T., Old Blue and White Nankin China, London, 1891. Williamson, George Charles, Murray Marks and his Friends, London and New York, 1919 . Obach & Co. [C. J. Holmes], The Peacock Room, exhibition catalogue, London, June 1904 . Merrill, Linda, The Peacock Room. A Cultural Biography, New Haven and London, 1998 . Pierson, Stacey, Collectors, Collections and Museums: The Field of Chinese Ceramics in in Britain, 1560-1960, Oxford; New York, 2007.
