The firm of Burlison and Grylls was founded in 1868 at the instigation of the architects G. F. Bodley and Thomas Garner. Both John Burlison (1843-91) and Thomas Grylls (1845-1913) had trained in the studios of Clayton & Bell, and by the 1890s Burlison & Grylls were among the most successful stained glass firms in England. Thomas Grylls' son, Thomas Henry Grylls (1873-1953),was a founding Fellow of the British Society of Master Glass Painters, and oversaw the survival of the firm into the post-war period. The firm closed after his death.
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Include tentative attributions
Michael Hall, George Frederick Bodley and the Later Gothic Revival in Britain and America (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), pp. 157–60, 235–6 and further references.
Joyce Little, Stained Glass Marks and Monograms (London: National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies, 2002), p. 20.
Martin Harrison, Victorian Stained Glass (London: 1980), pp. 43, 60, 76 and further references.
William Waters, Angels & Icons: Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass 1850–1870 (Abbots Morton: Serapim Press, 2012), p. 103.
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