The death is announced of Sir Hame Thornycroft, the eminent sculptor, at the age of 75—Reuter, tures in the form of public ***Sir amo Thornyerof's seulpre," sen" by. Londoners daily, specially his monument. to General Gordon in Trafalgar Square and that of the "Queen, still beliter known, in the Royal Exchange, He tulsa executed the Cromwell statue at Westminster, that of Lord Glanville in the' Houses, of Parlinment, the national mem Giudstone: in'the strand, and. The Kiss marble group in the Tate Gallery. He will be remembered for countless statues in the prow vineial towns and alo in India and South Africa, The Lord Curzon Memorial at Calcutta is his and -|that of Sir Steuart Bayley Born in London on March 9, 1860, William Hame Thornycroft became a gold medallist of the Royal Academy in 1875, an A. R. A. la 1881, an hon. member of the Royal Academy of Munich in 1889 and zained the Medaille d'Honneur at Paris in 1900. The R. A.came to him in 1888, A. knighthood ws bestowed upon him in 1917.
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