Mabel Esplin

He provided the financial backing for her to go to the Slade School of Fine Art and the London County Council (LCC) Central School of Arts and Crafts, which she attended from about 1906 to 1910 and where she was taught by Karl Parsons, stained glass artist Christopher Whall and stained glass artist Alfred J. Drury of Lowndes and Drury.

She also completed in that year a three-light window for the Gordon Memorial Chapel with the theme "Hope, Faith and Charity".

In one window and in an attempt to introduce local colour, the figure of Balthazar was portrayed in the costume of a Sudanese Sheikh.

[nb 1] Khartoum Cathedral was confiscated by the Sudan government in 1971 and the church's tower knocked down in October 1996.

[7] At St John the Divine she executed two single light windows for the Chancel in 1912, one entitled "Spes" and the other "Mater Dolorosa".