Joseph Edward (Eddie) Nuttgens (1892 – 1982) was a stained glass designer who worked mainly on church windows. He was born in Aachen, the eldest child of six born to a German tailor’s cutter, Heinrich/Henry Nuttgens, and an English mother, Teresa Mary Canham. The family moved to London in 1895. He was interned, because he had a German father, during World War 1 despite having an English mother and having lived in Britain since the age of three. He married Kathleen Mary Clarke in 1924 and they had five children, but she died in 1937. Nuttgens married Daphne Reid in 1940, sister of ‘The Colditz Story’ author Pat Reid, and they had eight more children. Joseph E Nuttgens was the father of Patrick Nuttgens, architect and academic, Joseph Ambrose Nuttgens, a stained glass designer, and the grandfather of Giles Nuttgens, cinematographer, Sandy Nuttgens, composer and Peg Alexander, broadcaster.
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