Sculptor. From minutes of the Trustees committee: "Martin was the visionary, designer, sculptor, diplomat, executor and custodian of the Flame. He, alone in Methodism, was able to carry this off with his technical and artistic background, his historical knowledge and City links."
Public Sculpture of Staffordshire and the Black Country refers to a "Methodist Minister, Martin Ludlow of Aldersgate Church" commenting on a piece of sculpture in 1989.
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Martin Ludlow
{On the west face:} Wednesday May 24 1738 "What occurred .......law of sin an...
Also responsible for, among others, the Scott Monument in Edinburgh, the Cenotaph in central Glasgow, figures on Marble Arch.
It seems he was a member of the Phrenological Society which makes some sense for a portrait sculptor.
Other work in London includes: the Mother and Child in Bishop's Park, Hammersmith; relief work on the Sadler's Wells Theatre, Islington; and the Britannia that looks down on Piccadilly Circus from ...
