Thomas Okey
Thomas Okey (1852–1935) was an expert on basket weaving, a translator of Italian, and a writer on art and the topography of architecture and art works in Italy and France. In 1919, he became the first Serena Professor of Italian at Cambridge University. Okey was a hereditary basket maker from a poor East End of London family, and on his appointment at Cambridge, he stated, and Okey was a member of the Art Workers' Guild and was elected Master in 1914.