Felix Joseph Slade FRA (6 August 1788 - 29 March 1868), was an English, a collector of glass, books and engravings, a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (1866) and a philanthropist who endowed chairs of fine art (professorships) at Oxford University and Cambridge University, and at University College London, where he also endowed scholarships which formed the beginning of the Slade School of Art (founded 1871). Wikipedia
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