Allan G. Wyon
Allan Gairdner WyonFRBS RMS (1882 – 26 February 1962) was a British die-engraver and sculptor and, in later life,vicarinNewlyn,Cornwall.
Many of his works are memorials with a number located in British cathedrals.[1]Other, more decorative, works include thereliefof a male figure representing theEast Windon theLondon Undergroundheadquarters building at55 BroadwayaboveSt James's Park Underground Station.[1]
Biography
[edit]Wyon was born in 1882, the son ofAllan WyonFSA(1843–1907) and Harriet Gairdner.[2]Wyon's father, two of his uncles, his grandfather and his great-grandfather successively held the position ofChief Engraver of Sealsto the monarch.[2]William Wyon(1795-1851) was official chief engraver at the Royal Mint.
Wyon attendedHighgate Schooland, like others in his family, studied sculpture in London from 1905 to 1909 at theRoyal Academy.[3]From 1910 to 1911 he was an assistant sculptor toHamo Thornycroft.[2]Between 1924 and 1930 he was Honorary Secretary of theArt Workers Guild.He was a Fellow of theRoyal Society of British Sculptorsand also worked as a die-engraver, but tookHoly Ordersin 1933. From 1936 until his retirement in 1955, he wasvicarof St. Peter's, Newlyn.[1]
He married Eileen May Trench in 1910; they had one daughter.[1]He had three sisters,Olive,and two others. One anAnglicanDeaconessand the other aCongregationalminister.His brother wasGuy Alfred Wyon,a pathologist.[2]
Works
[edit]Wyon exhibited a wide range of sculptures, busts medals and engravings at the Royal Academy. He designed commemorative and memorial medals for theMasons,the LondonChamber of Commerce,andLloyd's.[1]
Sculptured memorials inSalisbury Cathedralby Wyon include those to:[1]
Other memorials include those to:[1]
- Bishop Percival,inHereford Cathedral.
- Bishop Frere,inTruro Cathedral.
- Bishop Walpole,inSt. Mary's CathedralinEdinburgh.
- The combined Memorial toWilliam Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham,andWilliam Pitt the Younger,atHayesnearBromleyin Kent.
- Cambrian RailwaysWar Memorial,Oswestry,Shropshire.[4]
- The figure ofSt Michael,ShropshireWar memorial,Shrewsbury.[5]
- Female standing figurewith laurel wreath,Hinckleyand District War Memorial.
- TheRichard CorfieldMemorial, atMarlborough College.
- Joseph Watson, 1st Baron Manton,inLeeds Infirmary,Great George Street Entrance Hall, unveiled 1931.[6]
- Allan G. Wyon's brother Guy Alfred Wyon (1883–1924), in OldLeeds School of Medicinein Thoresby Place,Leeds.[7]
Other works:
- The Sorrows of Mankind,1920
- Egyptian Nude,1917
- Madonna and Child,NewlynChurchCornwall
- Christ the leader,In the SouthTranseptofSt Columb MajorChurch,Cornwall
- New Birth,1931, West wall of thebaptisteryofSt Columb MajorChurch,Cornwall
- Lion on Rock,1920
- Seal[8]for the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
- East Windon55 Broadway,headquarters of theUnderground Electric Railways Company of London(nowLondon Underground)
- Bronze Plaques of Kenrick and Jefferson previously at Kenrick and Jefferson Printing Works Ltdhttp://blackcountryhistory.org/collections/getrecord/GB146_BS-KJ/[1]now privately owned
References
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- ^abcdefg"Obituaries – The Rev. Allan Wyon".The Times.No. 55326. 27 February 1962. p. 15.Retrieved4 June2009.
- ^abcdAttwood, Philip (2004)."Wyon family (per. c. 1760–1962), die-engravers and medallists".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography(online ed.). Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/64499.Retrieved4 June2009.(Subscription orUK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^Wyon, Allan Gairdner, L. Forrer,Biographical Dictionary of Medallists;Vol. VI, London, 1916, pp. 580-581.
- ^Francis, Peter (2013).Shropshire War Memorials, Sites of Remembrance.YouCaxton Publications. p. 177.ISBN978-1-909644-11-3.
- ^Shropshire War Memorials, Sites of Remembrance.pp. 191–192.
- ^Bronze half-length bas-relief portrait sculpture, circa 1931. In Leeds General Infirmary, Great George Street Entrance Hall. Inscribed below:IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH WATSON FIRST BARON MANTON A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF THE INFIRMARY FROM 1906 TO 1922 A WISE COUNSELLOR AND GENEROUS BENEFACTOR.Signed bottom left of Lord Manton's robe: "Allan G Wyon". Unveiled Friday 11 December 1931 by his widow Claire, Lady Manton (Source: Yorkshire Post, 12 December 1931, p.14, which erroneously states by "W. Wyon", his famous relative the sculptor William Wyon, who died in 1851)
- ^Commons category:Old Leeds School of Medicine, memorial to Guy Alfred Wyon
- ^"The School Seal | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | LSHTM".lshtm.ac.uk.Archived fromthe originalon 21 October 2011.Retrieved25 September2015.
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