Courtauld Family
{{Short description|British business family}}
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{{Use British English|date=May 2025}}
{{Infobox family
| name = Courtauld Family
| type = English business family of Huguenot origin
|country = United Kingdom
|origin = {{plainlist}}
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|founder = {{ubl|George Courtauld (1744–1812)|Augustin Courtauld (1655–1706)}}
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The Courtauld Family is an English business family of Huguenot origin, active during the 17th–20th century.{{cite web |author1=Union List of Artist Names |title=Courtauld family (English silversmiths, industrialists, and patrons, active 17th-20th centuries) |url=http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500083006 |website=Getty Research |publisher=J. Paul Getty Trust |access-date=3 May 2025 |location=Los Angeles}}
Members
- Augustin Courtauld (1655–1706), cooper, vintner and goldsmith. Arrived in London sometime between 1686–1687, fleeing Huguenot persecution in Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron.{{cite book |last1=Gerstein |first1=Alexandra |editor1-last=Serres |editor1-first=Karen |title=Courtauld Collection : A Vision for Impressionism |date=2019 |publisher=Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paul Holberton Publishing |location=Paris, London |isbn=978-1-911300-58-8 |chapter=Silver, Silk and Industry : The Courtauld Businesses, 1708 to 1946}}
- Augustin Courtauld (c.1685/1686–c.1751), goldsmith, son of Augustin Courtauld.{{cite web |author1=Union List of Artist Names |title=Courtauld, Augustine (English goldsmith, ca. 1686-ca. 1751) |url=http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500094378 |website=Getty Research |publisher=J. Paul Getty Trust |access-date=3 May 2025 |location=Los Angeles}}
- Pierre Courtauld (1690–1729), silversmith, son of Augustin Courtauld.{{cite web |author1=Union List of Artist Names |title=Courtauld, Pierre (English silversmith, 1690-1729) |url=http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500117137 |website=Getty Research |publisher=J. Paul Getty Trust |access-date=3 May 2025 |location=Los Angeles}}
- Samuel Courtauld, I (1720–1765), silversmith, son of Anne Bardin and Augustin Courtauld; married Louisa Courtauld (née Ogier; 1729–1807), silversmith.{{cite web |author1=Union List of Artist Names |title=Courtauld, Samuel, I (English silversmith, 1720-1765) |url=http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500117138 |website=Getty Research |publisher=J. Paul Getty Trust |access-date=3 May 2025 |location=Los Angeles}}{{cite web |author1=Union List of Artist Names |title=Courtauld, Louisa Perina (British silversmith, ca. 1729-1807) |url=http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500098823 |website=Getty Research |publisher=J. Paul Getty Trust |access-date=3 May 2025 |location=Los Angeles}}
- Samuel Courtauld, II (1752–1821), silversmith and merchant, son of Louisa Courtauld and Samuel Courtauld, I.{{cite web |author1=Union List of Artist Names |title=Courtauld, Samuel, II (English silversmith and merchant, 1752-1821) |url=http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500117139 |website=Getty Research |publisher=J. Paul Getty Trust |access-date=3 May 2025 |location=Los Angeles}}
- George Courtauld (1761–1823), industrialist, silk weaver and founder of ″George Courtauld & Co″ (later, Courtaulds), son of Louisa Courtauld and Samuel Courtauld, I; married Ruth Minton.{{cite web |author1=Union List of Artist Names |title=Courtauld, George (English silk weaver, born 1761) |url=http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500117140 |website=Getty Research |publisher=Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust |access-date=3 May 2025 |location=Los Angeles}}
- Samuel Courtauld (c.1793 – 1881), silk throwster, son of George Courtauld and Ruth Minton. Expanded ″George Courtauld & Co″ alongside his cousin Peter Taylor as ″Courtauld & Taylor″.
- Louisa Ruth Lowe (née Harris), adopted daughter of Samuel Courtauld
- Catherine Courtauld (1795–), daughter of George Courtauld and Ruth Minton
- George Courtauld (1802 – 1861), son of George Courtauld and Ruth Minton; married Susanna Sewell (1803-1888)
- George Courtauld JP (1830 – 1920), son of George Courtauld and Susanna Sewell
- Katherine Courtauld (1856 – 1935), daughter of George Courtauld and Mina Courtauld (née Bromley); partner of Mary Gladstone (1856 – 1941)
- Samuel Augustine Courtauld (1833 – 1854), son of George Courtauld and Susanna Sewell
- Louis Courtauld (1834–), son of George Courtauld and Susanna Sewell; married Elizabeth Robinson
- Susanna Ruth Courtauld (1838–), daughter of George Courtauld and Susanna Sewell; married Lewis Barrett Solly
- Sydney Courtauld JP (1840 – 1899), son of George Courtauld and Susanna Sewell; married Sarah Lucy Sharpe (1803 – 1888)
- Sir William Julien Courtauld, 1st Baronet, JP (1870 – 1940), son of Sydney Courtauld and Sarah Lucy Sharpe
- Sydney Renée Courtauld (1873 – 1962), suffragist and philanthropist, daughter of Sydney Courtauld and Sarah Lucy Sharpe
- Samuel Courtauld, (1876 – 1947) industrialist and founder of Courtauld Institute of Art, son of Sydney Courtauld and Sarah Lucy Sharpe; married Elizabeth Theresa Frances Kelsey
- Catharine Dowman (née Courtauld; 1878 – 1972), suffragist and philanthropist, daughter of Sydney Courtauld and Sarah Lucy Sharpe
- John Courtauld (1880 – 1942), Conservative Party politician, son of Sydney Courtauld and Sarah Lucy Sharpe
- Sir Stephen Lewis Courtauld MC FRGS (1883 – 1967), patron and philanthropist,{{cite web |author1=Union List of Artist Names |title=Courtauld, Stephen Lewis (British patron, 1883-1967) |url=http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500086656 |website=Getty Research |publisher=J. Paul Getty Trust |access-date=3 May 2025 |location=Los Angeles}}{{cite web |author1=The Library of Congress |title=Courtauld, Stephen, Sir |url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009007617 |website=LC Name Authority File (LCNAF) |publisher=The Library of Congress |access-date=3 May 2025 |location=Washington, D.C. |date=2017}} son of Sydney Courtauld and Sarah Lucy Sharpe; married Lady Virginia Courtauld (née Peirano; c.1883 – 1972).{{cite web |last1=Treger |first1=Louisa |title=Lady Virginia Courtauld : Who was Eltham Palace's 20th-century lady of the house? |url=https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/inspire-me/lady-virginia-courtauld/ |website=English Heritage |access-date=3 May 2025 |location=Swindon |date=2020}}
Other members
- Augustine "August" Courtauld (1904 – 1959), Arctic explorer, son of Samuel Augustine Courtauld and cousin of Samuel Courtauld (1876 – 1947); married Mollie Courtauld, later Lady Butler of Saffron Walden (née Montgomerie) (1907 – 2009)
- Mah-Jongg (–1938) a ring-tailed lemur owned by Lady Virginia Courtauld and Sir Stephen Lewis Courtauld MC FRGS.
- Peter Taylor, expanded ″George Courtauld & Co″ alongside his cousin Samuel Courtauld (c.1793 – 1881) as ″Courtauld & Taylor″.
- Peter Alfred Taylor MP, politician, anti-vaccinationist and radical, son of Peter Taylor; married Clementia Taylor (née Doughty; 1810–1908), English women's rights activist and radical. Partner of ″Courtauld & Taylor″ from 1840.
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