BROCK, SIR THOMAS

born March 1, 1847, Worcester, Worcestershire, Eng. died Aug. 22, 1922, London English sculptor best known for the imperial memorial to Queen Victoria now in front of Buckingham Palace, London. In all, Brock executed seven statues of Victoria and her portrait design on the coinage of 1897. Among his portrait sculptures are those of British statesman William Gladstone (1902) and the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1884), both in Westminster Abbey. His statue of Captain James Cook (1914) stands in the Mall in London. He was knighted in 1911.