William Roberts RA, 1895-1980, from a working class family ; another distinguished Slade student from the generation of Gertler, Carrington, Nevinson and Spencer. A talented draftsman from childhood he was apprenticed to Sir Joseph Causton with the intention of being a poster artist, an intriguing direction for his future. http://englishcubist.co.uk/resurrectionpamph.html

From the Cometisme pamphlet protesting at the distortion of Vorticism as a Lewisite activity. "Vorticism for me is the work I did for the Doré Gallery exhibition, together with the drawings in the second Blast (War number) whilst a member of the Group. The painting 'Dancers', and the drawing 'Religion', reproduced in the 1914 Pink Blast, belong to my Pre-Vorticist period. These were done before I met Lewis. After we became acquainted he selected these two things for exhibition at his rebel Art Centre, later publishing them in Blast number one."

"If anyone were to imagine we signed this Manifesto, pen in hand, in solemn assembly, they would be making a big mistake. I, in fact, personally signed nothing. The first knowledge I had of a Vorticist Manifesto's existence was when Lewis, one fine Sunday morning in the summer of 1914, knocked at my door and placed in my hands this chubby, rosy, problem-child Blast, the fruits of his own, Ezra Pound's and Nevinson's combined labours. For if the honour of christening the Group belongs to Pound, Nevinson in his book, Paint and Prejudice, asserts that he was the godfather of its offspring, Blast."