Marcus Bicknell is the great-grand-nephew of Clarence Bicknell, curator of the family collection, editor of www.clarencebicknell.com and chairman of the Clarence Bicknell Association. He was awarded the 2017 Parmurelu d’Oru prize for services to culture in Bordighera. After his Masters in Physical Anthropology from Cambridge University in 1969 he was a marketing executive in the media business all his career; he managed Genesis and worked for CBS, A&M Records, television satellite operator SES Astra and the BBC. He has served on the Development Board of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and other community associations. He was born in the USA, is a British national, motor-racer, horse-rider, has lived in 7 countries, speaks German and French and lives with his family in the Chiltern Hills.
The interest in our recently-published reproduction of Clarence Bicknell’s “Book of Guests in Esperanto” continues to throw up interesting snippets of detail. […]
Clarence Bicknell’s Book of Guests in Esperanto is a masterpiece of dedication and arts-and-crafts talent in watercolours, published in book form worldwide.. […]
Postcard from Clarence Bicknell to Emile Cartailhac, April 1911, in the archives of Toulouse University. With thanks to Helen Blancfrancard for finding […]
Clarence’s favourite flower, the humble Dandelion, in one of the vellum-bound albums by Clarence Bicknell in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. This image […]