Stone and marble mason, of New Kent Road, London. The 1865 London trade directory lists his specialities as ‘monuments, head stones, memorial crosses, marble tablets, & every description of monumental work in town or country, at moderate prices, forwarded on application; export orders’. In 1862, he carved a fine Portland stone tablet commemorating James Braidwood, superintendent of the London Fire Engine Establishment, who was killed by a falling wall while trying to subdue the Great Tooley Street Fire, on 22 June 1861; the tablet, comprising a laurel wreath and firemen’s equipment in high relief against the backdrop of a building belching smoke and flames, is mounted on the Cottons Lane elevation of 33 Tooley Street, Bermondsey, south London.
Bibliography: T. Cavanagh, Public Sculpture of South London, Liverpool, 2007, pp. 179–80, 437; London trade directories 1857–1866.
Terry Cavanagh, 2007; revised, July 2024