Edward McCurdy  

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Edward McCurdy (1871 - ?) was a translator of Leonardo's Notebooks (1906).

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• Married Sylvia Stebbing in 1908 followed by a six-month honeymoon tour of Italy. After which the made their home in Ashtead, where Sylvia spent the rest of he long life having 6 children. Sylvia's story from her birth, 5-Apr-1876, to 1908 is told in her autobiography Sylvia. Sylvia was the third child and elder daughter of William and Anne Stebbing, was born at a house in Russell Square, London. Her father was Assistant Editor and First Leader Writer for The Times, then under the Editorship of Mr. Delane. In her youth the family moved from London to, among other places, Heath House at Headley near Leatherhead and Frith Park at Walton-on-the-Hill. One of her main interests in life has been social work and each week for many years she helped to run an Old People's Club at the Blackfriars' Settlement; each year holding a summer party at her home.
• Translated Leonardo da Vinci's diaries out of their original mediaeval Italian mirror writing. In recognition of this he was made a member of the exclusive Athenaeum Club
• He was educated at Oxford, had a natural literary talent and wrote essays and poems, serious and light. Above all he was an authority on the works and personality of Leonardo da Vinci. Edward MacCurdy spent all his married life here. He arrived in 1907, aged 36, following his marriage the previous year to Sylvia Stebbing. They made their home in Oakdene, in Oakfield Road. Here they raised six children. McCurdy's first work on Leonardo da Vinci was published in 1904, followed in 1906 by a version of the Notebooks of Leonardo, and in 1907 by The Thoughts of Leonardo. His major work was the issue of a two-volume edition of the Note Books in 1938. This was re-issued in 1948 and ran into several editions.