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Alfred Richard Orage

British politician (1873-1934) · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Died at 61

Alfred Richard Orage was a British influential figure in socialist politics and modernist culture, now best known for editing the magazine The New Age before the First World War. While he was working as a schoolteacher in Leeds he pursued various interests, including Plato, the Independent Labour Party and theosophy.

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In 1900, he met Holbrook Jackson and three years later they co-founded the Leeds Arts Club, which became a centre of modernist culture in Britain. After 1924, Orage went to France to work with George Gurdjieff and was then sent to the United States by Gurdjieff to raise funds and lecture. He translated several of Gurdjieff's works.

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United Kingdom
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1873 to 1934 · aged 61