The exhibition of Sir Cyril Hinshelwood’s paintings at Goldsmiths’ Hall on 20 March, 1968

On 20 March many of Sir Cyril Hinshelwood’s friends and pupils came to Goldsmiths’ Hall to enjoy the remarkable exhibition of his oil paintings. Cyril was a Goldsmiths’ Exhibitioner as an undergraduate and had been a liveryman of the Company since 1952. In 1960 when he was President of the Royal Society in the year of the Tercentenary Celebrations he was elected to the Court. He was the joint author of a short monograph on Gresham College and the Royal Society which had been printed by the Goldsmiths for distribution to all those who came to the Tercentenary Celebrations in the City. Cyril often said that his association with the Company was one of the happiest episodes of his later years. He took a keen interest in the Goldsmiths’ craft and was an admirable Chairman of their Education Committee. He left nearly all his property to the Goldsmiths’ Donation Fund as he said he admired so much what they did to help individuals and for the relief of suffering. All his paintings therefore passed to the Company and one object of the Exhibition on 20 March was to give his friends the opportunity of choosing pictures they would love to possess in memory of him from among those that will not find a permanent home with the Company or with his two Oxford Colleges

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