Chronology: Date 1979-05-06-01

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1979 6 May 197-	Bernard Howell Leach CBE, (b.5 Jan 1887 Hong Kong), internationally known potter, artist and author, passed away in St Ives, Cornwall. He was buried in the Barnoon Cemetery in St Ives. [BW18:669–71] See AY50 for the significance of the name of the village of St. Ives. Find a grave Wikipedia. Leach Pottery. Encyclopaedia Britannica He was the author of A Potter's Book, A Potter in Japan as well as Beyond East and West: Memoirs, Portraits and Essays, and Drawings, Verse and Belief. [Collins10.892-10.985] See Bernard Leach, Potter:A Biographical Sketch by Robert Weinberg. See Remembering Bernard Leach by Trudi Scott (Published in BW18 pp929-931). See Traces that Remain p216-218. See the tribute to Bernard Leach and Shoki Hamada entitled Pioneering Pottery Sought Unity of East and West on the centenary of the founding of Leach Pottery in St. Ives, England. See a brief biography in The Bahá'í Community of the British Isles 1844-1963 p462-464 and for the story of his learning of the Faith, p460-464.	Bernard Leach; In Memoriam; Births and deaths; St. Ives, England; Cornwall, England; United Kingdom


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