Douglas Goldring

In 1913 he was in close contact with Wyndham Lewis and the Vorticist group, helping to achieve publication of the literary magazine BLAST printed.

[3] He moved to Dublin, Ireland, and married there his first wife, Betty Duncan; they had two children (the elder, Hugh, was killed as a soldier in World War II).

While in Dublin, Goldring witnessed the funeral of the Irish Republican activist Thomas Ashe, which he later wrote about in his book A Stranger in Ireland.

[3] On returning to London, he intended in 1919 to establish a People's Theatre Society and publish a series of dramas, including one, by D. H. Lawrence (Touch and Go),but in the end only getting his own Fight for Freedom into print.

[2] He witnessed the destruction in 1924 of the John Nash facades on Regent Street, leading to his later interest in the preservation of Georgian period architecture.

Inspired by the ideas of William Morris, Goldring helped transform it in 1937 into the Georgian Group, a section within the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, on the advice of Lord Esher.