War Memorials Advisory Committee
Foundation date: 27 April 1944
Function: Committee
Policy: Formed 'under the auspices of the Royal Society of Arts', to advise on the forms which memorials might take.
History or description: The Royal Society of Arts held a conference on 27 April 1944 resulting in the formation of a War Memorials Advisory Council. The Council consisted of representatives from no less than fifty societies and distingished individuals. In their history of the Royal Society of Arts (1954) Hudson and Luckhurst state that 'ten thousand copies of the Council's survey of the problem of memorials were distributed to Government Departments, Lords Lieutenant and local authorities throughout England and Wales. (See 'The Royal Society of Arts', (1954), pp. 288-289)
Institutional and Business Connections
Included representative from Royal Society of Arts
1944
Set up with involvement from Royal Society of Arts
1944
Associated People
Members of committee included Gilbert Ledward
1944 (Presumed) - 1946 (Presumed)
Served on Executive Committee
Members of council included Charles Thomas Wheeler
1944 (Presumed)
Citing this record
'War Memorials Advisory Committee', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/organization.php?id=ann_1278506038, accessed 05 Jun 2023]
