Slade, FELIX (1789–1868), of Halsteads, Yorkshire, was an antiquary and art collector, and bequeathed to the British Museum his valuable collections of engravings and of Venetian glass. He also left by will money to found art professorships at Oxford, Cambridge, and at University College, London. Amongst Slade professors have been Ruskin, Sidney Colvin, and W. B. Richmond.
Slade, FELIX
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 495
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