Hilary Douglas Pepler
Birth Date: 1878
Death Date: 1951
Harry Douglas Clark Pepler (1878–1951), known as Hilary Pepler, was an English printer, writer and poet. Through living in Hammersmith he met Edward Johnston, Eric Gill and Frank Brangwyn. It was here he set up the Hampshire House Workshops and developed his interest in crafts.
In 1916 he moved to Ditchling to become a printer, setting up St Dominic’s Press. The Press produced sacred and secular works, using illustrations by Gill, Hagreen, Jones and Pepler himself. After differences with Gill on the approach to the Guild, he was expelled and in 1934 he moved the Press from the Common to the village and renamed it Ditchling Press in 1937.