T. Mewburn Crook
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Thomas Mewburn Crook (4 December 1869 – 18 January 1949) was an English sculptor who primarily produced portraiture and ecclesiastical works, many of which were exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts.
4 December 1869
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,_16_May_1928.jpg) Pencil of Mewburn Crook by Fred Roe (1928) | |
| Born | Thomas Mewburn Crook 4 December 1869 Tonge Moor, Bolton, Lancashire |
| Died | 18 January 1949 (aged 79) Chiswick, London |
| Education | |
| Occupation | sculptor |
| Spouse | Winifred (née Saunders) |
| Children | 5 |
Crook was born at Tonge Moor, Bolton, Lancashire, son of cotton dealer James Crook and his wife Dinah (née Hamilton).[1] He was educated at the Xavierian Collegiate School in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Bolton Art School, and the Manchester School of Art (where he graduated with an Art Master's Certificate), before attending the Royal College of Art in London.[2][3] After working as an assistant modelling master at the Royal College of Art from 1894 to 1895, he returned to Manchester, becoming modelling master and anatomy lecturer at the Manchester School of Art from 1896 to 1905, when he moved to Chiswick in West London with his widowed mother and sisters and set up a practice.[4][2]
Crook was an honorary Associate of the Royal College of Art from 1902, was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1910 (being Hon. Secretary from 1913 to after World War II), and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1923.[4]
With his wife, Winifred, a mosaicist (née Saunders; she had been Crook's assistant),[5] Crook had five children. He lived at Chiswick until his death in 1949.[6]
