Cecil Jordan was a respected wood turner and tutor who crafted elegant, modernist pieces which are widely admired. Jordan used an ornamental turner’s lathe made some time in the middle of the nineteenth century. It had been in his family since the early twentieth century and was used by his relative HW Smith to turn the wedding present given to the late Queen Mother by the Worshipful Company of Turners. Jordan, who died in 2015, also turned a number of pieces for royalty. His work is held in collections including the V&A, the Crafts Council, various regional art collections, the Crafts Study Centre at the Holbourne Museum, Bath University and numerous other private and public collections at and abroad. Jordan was an Assessor for the Register of Professional Turners and a visiting tutor at Rycotewood College of Furniture and the former John Makepeace School of Furniture. He was a member of the Guild of Gloucestershire Craftsmen and a member of the Society of Ornamental Turners. He was represented on the indices of Craftsmen maintained by the Crafts Council and Contemporary Applied Arts. He had his own mark from the Goldsmiths Company.