Thomas Monnington (1902-1976) studied at the Slade School in 1918–23, Rome Scholar 1923–6. Married the artist Winifred Knights, 1924. Among his public works are a decoration for St Stephen’s Hall, Westminster, 1928, and the new Council House, in Bristol, 1956. Monnington taught drawing at the Royal Academy Schools 1931–9, in 1949 joining the staff of the Slade, whose strong linear tradition marked his own work. Monnington is represented in a number of public galleries, including the Tate. He was elected RA in 1938, became its president in 1966 and was knighted in 1967. There was a memorial exhibition at RA, 1977, another travelling from the British School at Rome to the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter and the Fine Art Society in 1997.