Thomas Okey

Thomas Okey (30 September 1852 – 4 May 1935) was a British expert on basket weaving, a translator of Italian, and a writer on art and the topography of architecture and art works in Italy and France.

Okey's first experience of the Italian language came when he attended the Extension Lectures at Toynbee Hall in the 1880s.

[3] Okey was a hereditary basket maker from a poor East End of London family, and on his appointment at Cambridge he stated that: Money...social position as such counts for nothing... and the consciousness that one stands for what one is worth as a scholar and a man... All stand on an equality of worth, from the porter at the gate to the Master in the lodge.

[2] Okey was also a member of the Art Workers' Guild, and was elected Master in 1914.

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