THORNYCROFT, SIR HAMO

born March 9, 1850, London, Eng. died Dec. 18, 1925, Oxford in full Sir William Hamo Thornycroft English sculptor who executed many public monuments in a lively classical style. The son of the sculptor Thomas Thornycroft, Hamo studied under his father, at the schools of the Royal Academy, and in Italy, where he was particularly interested in Michelangelo. He established his own reputation as a sculptor in the 1880s, was elected a royal academician in 1888, and was knighted in 1917. Among his works in London are monuments to General Charles George Gordon (1888, formerly Trafalgar Square), Oliver Cromwell (1899, Westminster), Dean John Colet (1902, St. Paul's School, Hammersmith), William Gladstone (1905, Strand), and the architect Richard Norman Shaw (bas-relief, 1914, New Scotland Yard). His brother was Sir John Isaac Thornycroft, a naval engineer.