Sculptor. He trained at Middlesborough Art College and at the City and Guilds of London Art College in Lambeth. In 1984 he produced a medal commemorating Michelangelo for the British Art Medal Society, and shortly afterwards, at the age of thirty-three, won the Greater London Council’s competition for a statue of Clement Attlee. After some financial difficulties, the Attlee statue was unveiled outside Limehouse Library in the Commercial Road, London, in 1988. Other commissions have included a statue of a racehorse for an Arab sheikh, four statues of the Seasons, commissioned by Lord Faringdon for Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, and the portrait relief of Orde Wingate on the Chindits Memorial (1990) on the Victoria Embankment.
Bibliography: J. Blackwood, London’s Immortals, London, 1989, pp. 328–43; P. Ward-Jackson, Public Sculpture of Historic Westminster. Volume 1, Liverpool, 2011, pp. 369–71, 446.
Philip Ward-Jackson, 2011; revised, Terry Cavanagh, November 2024