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'''George Heywood Maunoir Sumner''' (1853–1940) was originally an English painter, illustrator, and craftsman, closely involved with the [[Arts and Crafts movement]] and the late-Victorian London art world. In his mid-forties he relocated to Cuckoo Hill, near [[Fordingbridge]] in Hampshire, England, and spent the rest of his life investigating and recording the archaeology, geology and folklore of the [[New Forest]] and [[Cranborne Chase]] regions.

Sumner was born in 1853 at [[Old Alresford]], Hampshire, the son of Reverend [[George Henry Sumner (Bishop of Guildford)]],{{efn|at the time of Heywood's birth, Heywood's father was an [[Rectorrector (ecclesiastical)#Anglican churches|Anglicanrector]] of [[Old clergymanAlresford]],}} and [[Mary Sumner|Mary Elizabeth Sumner]] (née Heywood), also prominent in the [[Church of England]] and well known as the founder of the [[Mothers' Union]].

After attending [[Eton College|Eton]], Sumner studied at [[Christ Church, Oxford]], and in 1881 qualified as a [[barrister]] at [[Lincoln's Inn]], London. He was elected to the [[Art Workers' Guild]] and became its Master in 1894.<ref name=phil>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SqzKa8ERPOAC&dq=master+of+the+art+workers+guild&pg=PA292|title=The History and Philosophy of Art Education|author=Macdonald. S|page=292|isbn=9780340094204|date=1970|publisher=James Clarke & Co. }}</ref>

In 1883 Sumner married Agnes Benson, the sister of his college friend [[William Arthur Smith Benson|W A S Benson]]. Together they had five children – three boys and two girls. In 1897 Sumner retired from London and moved his family to [[Bournemouth]] on the south coast of England, ostensibly because of his wife's ill-health. In 1902 he acquired a plot of land at Cuckoo Hill near [[South Gorley]], on the east side of the [[River Avon (Hampshire)|Avon valley]], and designed and built his ideal family house. Sumner lived at Cuckoo Hill from 1904 until his death in 1940 at the age of 87. The house has since been renamed "Heywood Sumner House", and is currently run as a care home.<ref name="carehome.co.uk" />

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*{{cite book|title=The Itchen Valley from Tichborne to Southampton: twenty-two etchings |first=Heywood |last=Sumner|url= https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/180767187|pages=48|location=London |publisher= Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday|date= 1881|display-authors=0|ref=harv}}

*{{cite book|ref=harv|last=Sumner|first=Heywood |title=The Avon, from Naseby to Tewkesbury: Twenty-one Etchings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ouGLngEACAAJ|year=1881|publisher=Scribner & Welford|display-authors=0}}

*{{cite book|title=Heywood Sumner's Wessex|year= 1985|publisher= R Gasson Associates|pages=168|ol=8474544M|isbn=9780948495014|oclc=21757309|ref=harv}}

| authorlinkauthor-link = Barry Cunliffe

*{{Cite thesis |type=PhD |title=The Fitzroy Picture Society : pictures for 'schools, mission-rooms and hospitals' in the 1890s - OpenBibArt |last=Price |first= Susan Melanie |publisher=Birkbeck: University of London |date=1996 |url=https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.517062|ref=harv }}

*{{citation|chapter=Princes Gate and Ennismore Gardens: The Kingston House Estate, Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Ennismore Gardens (formerly All Saints' Church)|title=Survey of London|volume= 45, Knightsbridge|editor-first= John |editor-last=Greenacombe |location=London|date= 2000|via= British History Online|chapter-url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol45/pp186-190 |ref=harv}}

* {{Gutenberg author | id=Sumner,+Heywood 8492| name=Heywood Sumner}}