Sculptor. Born Edinburgh, where he became a goldsmith. Moved to Birmingham in 1905 where he joined The Arts and Crafts Bromsgrove Guild in 1919 and became their chief modeller, solely responsible for modelling all the figures, medallions and memorials until he left the firm and returned to Edinburgh in 1937. His brother and his son were also goldsmiths.
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Michael Hewan Crichton
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Fortuna figure
Known as Terpsichord/e, Fortune or Fortuna. Searching for information on thi...
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James Alexander Stevenson (Myranda)
Stevenson signed himself as Myranda (a elision of his wife's name, Myra, and their surname) to avoid being confused with another sculptor of the same name. We have not yet found much information a...
1 memorial
John Atkin
Sculptor. Born Darlington. Sponsored at college by Henry Moore. Aitkin's website.
1 memorial
Horace Montford
Sculptor, at one time assistant to Matthew Noble. Born Shrewsbury. Father to Paul.
1 memorial
Michael Rysbrack
Also known as John Michael or Johannes Michel or Jan Michiel Rysbrach or Rijsbrack. Born Antwerp (which probably explains the confusion). Sculptor of busts and funerary monuments of many prominent...
4 memorials
Joseph Anton Couriguer
Goldsmith modeller. Born Switzerland into a family of artists. Died Paris.
1 memorial
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Hyde Park bomb
SW1, South Carriage Drive
From the Western Front Association we learn that "Each time The Queen's Life Guard or other bodies of Household Cavalry pass the spot, 't...
6 subjects commemorated
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
William Dockwra
Merchant who along with his partner Robert Murray created the first Penny Post in London in 1680. He was also an independent slave trader who attempted to break the monopoly that the Royal African ...
1 memorial
Lady Workers' Homes 2 - Baroness Burdett-Coutts
N6, Makepeace Avenue
These 4 stones are evenly spaced on the horizontal surface of the rim of the pond. We have numbered them clockwise, starting at the west....
2 subjects commemorated
Longman's Ship Binding Works
Thomas Longman (1699-1755) through an inheritance acquired a publishing house, The Ship, in Paternoster Row (the street of book publishers) and shortly after, The Black Swan, next door. Daniel Defo...
1 memorial
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