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  1. Leonard Knight Elmhirst FRSA (6 June 1893 – 16 April 1974) was a British philanthropist and agronomist who worked extensively in India. He co-founded with his wife, Dorothy, the Dartington Hall project in progressive education and rural reconstruction.

  2. Apr 16, 1974 · Leonard Knight Elmhirst. Born 6 Jun 1893 in Worsborough, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. Son of William Heaton Elmhirst and Mary (Knight) Elmhirst. Brother of William Elmhirst, Ernest Christopher Elmhirst and Thomas Walker Elmhirst.

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    • June 6, 1893
    • Dorothy Payne (Whitney) Elmhirst
    • April 16, 1974
  3. Leonard Knight Elmhirst was a philanthropist and agronomist who worked extensively in India. He was co-founder with his wife, Dorothy (Whitney) Elmhirst, of the Dartington Hall project in progressive education and rural reconstruction.

  4. Apr 18, 1974 · Leonard Knight, Elmhirst, an internationally known agricultural economist and educational innovator, died Tuesday in Beyerly Hills, Calif., where he had recently moved. He was to...

  5. Leonard Knight Elmhirst was a British philanthropist and agronomist who worked extensively in India. He co-founded with his wife, Dorothy, the Dartington Hall project in progressive education and rural reconstruction.

  6. Leonard Knight Elmhirst was a philanthropist and agronomist who worked extensively in India. Background. Leonard Elmhirst was born into a landed gentry family in Worsbrough (now part of Barnsley, Yorkshire), where the family seat is Houndhill.

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  8. Clipping found in The Ithaca Journal published in Ithaca, New York on 4/24/1974. Obituary for Leonard Knight Elmhirst