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Dora Gordine (1895-1991)

Talented, charismatic and dedicated to her art, Dora Gordine was hailed in 1938 as 'possibly the finest woman sculptor in the world' and she remained a major presence in European sculpture until the late 1960s. Trained in Tallinn and Paris during the 1920s Gordine achieved critical acclaim in 1926 with the bronze Head of a Chinese Philosopher exhibited at the Salon des Tuileries in Paris (now on display at Dorich House). She settled in Kingston in 1936 and remained living and working at Dorich House until her death in 1991.

Richard Hare (1907-1966)

Richard Gilbert Hare was the second son of the fourth Earl of Listowel.  Educated at Oxford, the Sorbonne and Berlin University, he developed a lifelong interest in the study and collection of Russian art and culture.

Following a brief career in the Foreign Office, Hare spent the war working for the Anglo-Soviet Relations Division of the Ministry of Information before becoming a Professor of Russian Literature at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. He died suddenly and unexpectedly from a heart attack in 1966.