1. Gilbert Ledward won the British Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1913, and in World War I served in the Royal Garrison Artillery and later as a war artist.
18 Facts About Gilbert Ledward
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Gilbert Ledward was professor of sculpture at the Royal College of Art and in 1937 was elected a Royal Academician.
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Gilbert Ledward became president of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and a trustee of the Royal Academy.
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Gilbert Ledward was educated at St Mark's College, Chelsea until 1901, when his mother took the family to live in Germany.
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In 1905, Gilbert Ledward began to train as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art under Edouard Lanteri, and in November 1910 he proceeded to the Royal Academy Schools.
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In 1913 Gilbert Ledward won both the British Prix de Rome scholarship for sculpture and the Royal Academy's travelling award and gold medal.
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Gilbert Ledward was commissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery and was later mentioned in despatches.
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Gilbert Ledward produced reliefs for the Imperial War Museum, generally of soldiers in action.
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In 1936, Gilbert Ledward designed four sculpted allegorical figures on the front of The Adelphi Building facing the River Thames in London.
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In 1937 Gilbert Ledward was elected a Royal Academician, having been an associate of the Royal Academy since 1932.
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Gilbert Ledward was seen as loyal to the values of the Academy, a defender of its academic traditions, but ready to support good modern work.
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Gilbert Ledward was strong in composition, less conventional than Gill and less radical than Jagger, and was seen as representing the sculptural establishment.
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Gilbert Ledward designed the bronze figures of Saint Nicholas and Saint Christopher at the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street, the fountain in Sloane Square, the new Great Seal of the Realm of 1953 and the 1953 crown coin for the coronation of Elizabeth II, of which more than five million were minted.
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Gilbert Ledward's last work was a stone frieze with the title Vision and Imagination for Barclays Bank in Old Bond Street, in the West End of London.
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In 1911, Gilbert Ledward married Margery Beatrix Cheesman, and they later had two daughters and a son.
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Gilbert Ledward was a member of the Chelsea Arts Club and in Who's Who gave his recreation as sailing.
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Gilbert Ledward died at number 31, Queen's Gate, London, on 21 June 1960.
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Gilbert Ledward is buried along with his wife in the churchyard of St Mary's, Perivale, Middlesex.