| Activity | A senior partner in a London firm of solicitors, McKennas, Gwatkin was one of Dartington Hall's two legal advisers, Chairman of Dartington Hall Ltd, 1939-1952 and a trustee from 1932 until his death in 1953. He was less than enthusiastic about Dartington Hall's artistic enterprises - when once asked 'What is Dartington Hall?' he despondently replied, 'a rural salon'. |