Editing Eric Gill (section)

=== Early life ===
Eric Gill was born in 1882 in Hamilton Road, [[Brighton]], the second of the 13 children of the Reverend Arthur Tidman Gill and (Cicely) Rose King (died 1929), formerly a professional singer of [[light opera]] under the name Rose le Roi.<ref name="ODNB">{{cite ODNB |title=Gill, (Arthur) Eric Rowton |author= Fiona MacCarthy |author-link=Fiona MacCarthy |date= 25 September 2014 |orig-date= 23 September 2004 |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/33403}}</ref> Arthur Tidman Gill had left the [[Congregational Union of England and Wales|Congregational Church]] in 1878 over doctrinal disagreements and became a minister of the [[Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion]], a grouping of Calvinist Methodists.<ref name="FMacCarthy">{{Cite book |author=Fiona MacCarthy |title=Eric Gill |year=1989 |publisher=Faber & Faber |isbn=0-571-14302-4 |author-link=Fiona MacCarthy}}</ref>{{rp|7}} Arthur was born in the South Seas, where his father, George Gill, was a Congregational minister and missionary.<ref name="FMacCarthy" />{{rp|5}} Eric Gill was the elder brother of the graphic artist [[MacDonald Gill|MacDonald "Max" Gill]] (1884–1947).<ref name="ODNB" /> Two of his other brothers, Romney and Cecil, became Anglican missionaries while their sister, Madeline, became a nun and also undertook missionary work.<ref name="FMacCarthy" />{{rp|5}} The film historian [[David Gill (film historian)|David Gill]] was a nephew.

In 1897, the family moved to [[Chichester]], when Arthur Tidman Gill left the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, became a mature student at [[Chichester Theological College]] and joined the [[Church of England]].<ref name="ODNB" /><ref name="FMacCarthy" />{{rp|19}} Eric Gill studied at Chichester Technical and Art School, where he won a Queen's Prize for perspective drawing and developed a passion for lettering.<ref name="FMacCarthy" />{{rp|26}} Later in his life, Gill cited the Norman and medieval carved stone panels in [[Chichester Cathedral]] as a major influence on his sculpture.<ref name="JWilliams">{{cite web|url=https://www.apollo-magazine.com/eric-gills-fall-from-grace/|title=Eric Gill's fall from grace |author=James Williams |work=Apollo |date=27 April 2017|access-date=19 January 2022}}</ref><ref name="FMC2006">{{Cite news |author=Fiona MacCarthy |author-link=Fiona MacCarthy|date=22 July 2006|title=Written in stone |work=[[The Guardian]]|url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1826081,00.html|access-date=9 November 2017}}</ref> In 1900, Gill became disillusioned with Chichester and moved to London to train as an architect with the practice of [[W. D. Caröe]], specialists in ecclesiastical architecture with a large office close to [[Westminster Abbey]].<ref name="ODNB" />