Joyce Rosemary Himsworth (19 August 1905 – 31 March 1989) was a British independent designer silversmith. From an early age she worked with her father, the polymath Joseph Beeston Himsworth (1874–1968) making small spoons and items of jewellery. She went on to study at Sheffield College of Arts and Craft, focusing on jewellery manufacture and enamelling. Her undoubted talents were not enough for her to gain a position within the family cutlery firm, B. Worth & Sons. Silversmithing Joyce Himsworth and her father registered a joint mark at Sheffield Assay Office in 1925, which comprised both sets of their initials. However, just a year later, having established her own workshop at 31 Chelsea Road, Brincliffe, Sheffield she began to use this mark on work she produced as an independent designer silversmith. She studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London (under H. G. Murphy). In 1934 she received a first class City and Guilds certificate in Goldsmithing and Silversmithing and awarded the highest mark nationally for her enamel work. In 1935 she registered her mark 'JRH' at the London and Sheffield Assay Offices. From 1925 she was an exhibiting member of the Sheffield Art Crafts Guild (founded in 1894 by Charles Green). A 1932 report of the Guild describes its aims as, "the encouragement of skilled artistic handicrafts, promoting fellowship between artist craftworkers, disseminating information by means of demonstrations, exhibitions and lectures". The Guild was not limited to metalworkers, but embraced a wide range of artistic endeavours such as leatherwork, textile design, architectural design, ceramics and sculpture. Her silverware was included in the 50th anniversary exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Society at the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 1938. and at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Himsworth was not a prolific maker, working mainly to commission. Himsworth's work was exhibited with the Sheffield Art Crafts Guild, with whom she was elected Honorary Secretary (1926–1936) and later exhibited with the Red Rose Guild of Craftsmen. She also taught at the art colleges in Rotherham and Chesterfield. Throughout her life she took part in many of the Goldsmiths’ Company exhibitions both at home and abroad. Artistic influences Inspired by the art and crafts movement, Himsworth followed in the footsteps of earlier Sheffield trained silversmiths and jewellery designers, Omar Ramsden and John Walker. Her early stylistic influences were varied and far reaching and included Egyptian and Celtic design. Artistic