The 5 key members of the Peasant Arts movement, Haslemere, UK were interlinked by family connections:
- The most renowned artist of the movement
- Chairman of the English Handicraft Society
- His work is displayed in the Victoria and Albert Museum
- Held strong principles on the simplicity of art, country living and faith
- He designed the peasant tapestries
- His other art work included watercolours, plasterwork and woodcarvings
- Founded the Country Church, the New Crusade movement and the Supernatural Society
- Author of Arbor Vitae and many other pamphlets on peasant art and christian beliefs
- Author of 'The Story of the Homespun Web: A simply Guide to Spinning and Weaving’ in 1910
- Worked on the hand looms in the Tapestry Studio and at her home St Cross
- Taught spinning and weaving at the Spinning and Weaving school, Hall of St George
- Taught girls at the Wheel and Spindle Club, Sandhouse, with her sister Maude
- On the general committee of the Healthy and Artistic Dress Union
- Liberal MP for North Somerset 1910-1918
- Financier of the Peasant Arts movement
- Owned the land on Kings Road, Haslemere and built the weaving houses
- Had Sandhouse, Witley built as his home by Francis Troup
- Part-financed the Peasant Arts Museum's transfer to the Haslemere Educational Museum
- Honorary Curator of the Peasant Arts Museum 1926-1943
- Friend of the Dolmetsches; on the Board of Governors of the Dolmetsch Foundation
- Political interests in electoral and educational reform
- Writer of numerous books on German and Russian interwar politics
- accredited with being the force behind the Peasant Arts movement
- taught hand loom weaving at Lower Birtley, the Weaving House, the Wheel & Spindle Club
- an author and a poet of numerous works such as My Book of Songs and Sonnets
- editor of The Vineyard magazine
- Sister of Ethel Blount (nee Hine), and daughter of the painter Henry George Hine
Greville MacDonald (1856-?)
- joined the movement after it had begun
- well-connected eldest son of the author George MacDonald
- Ear, nose and throat doctor at Kings College Hospital and Harley Street
- financially supported the Peasant Arts movement
- negotiated the purchase of the Museum of Peasant Arts
- Edited The Vineyard magazine with Maude
- Author of numerous books on varied subjects including fairy stories
