Modeller, based in Wandsworth, principally producing figures, monuments and terracotta ware. He joined Doulton & Co in 1873, firstly as an assistant to George Tinworth, remaining there throughout his working life. He also studied at Lambeth School of Art and afterwards the RA Schools, in 1882 winning a silver medal for a model of a figure from the life. In 1888, he modelled an India group and a Queen Victoria statue for Doulton’s Victoria Fountain in Glasgow. When in 1894 the latter was destroyed by lightning, Henry Doulton, at his own expense, had Broad make a new model for Glasgow Corporation. Whereas the first had been a unique cast, this second was a multiple edition, with one cast going up outside Doulton’s Lambeth offices (removed 1910 to make way for road alterations and subsequently broken up) and another at Gravesend. Also for Doulton were his statues of General Gordon, 1893, Gravesend, and Queen Victoria, 1897–98, for Gravesend and 1899 for Albert Embankment, London (destroyed); decorative reliefs, including spandrels of ‘Night’ and ‘Day’, over the entrance of R.W. Edis’s Hotel Great Central (now The Landmark), Marylebone Road, 1897–99; and the tympanum relief for Harrods, c.1905, Brompton Road. Examples of his works were shown at Arts and Crafts exhibitions, London, 1890, 1891 and 1910, the Chicago World Fair, 1893, and the RA, 1890–1900.
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Terry Cavanagh November 2022