Thomas Duckett Senior
Born 1804
Died 13 February 1878
Active: 1841 - 1871
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, architectural sculptor
Born in Claughton, Lancashire. From farming stock, he was apprenticed to a plasterer. Duckett Senior then worked successively for Gillow and Co in Lancaster, Franceys and Spence in Liverpool and then Francis Webster and Sons of Kendal where he managed the sculpture department. He set up a studio in Preston and created a number of works for his home town, of which the most famous is the statue of Sir Robert Peel (1852). His son, Thomas Duckett Junior was a sculptor of promise who died in Australia in 1868. Thomas Duckett Senior died after a long illness.
Wealth at death: £4,000 0s. 0d.
Resworn Probate
Probate date: January 1879
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851
'Sculptor'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
'Sculptor'
Sources
A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851
2009
pp. 378-9
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851
2005
HO107 piece 2265 folio 556 page 8
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
2004
Class: RG10; Piece: 4204; Folio: 154; Page: 22; GSU roll: 846952
England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: Thomas Duckett
Estimated birth year: abt 1804
Year of Registration: 1878
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
Age at Death: 74
District: Preston
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8e
Page: 465
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Thomas Duckett
Probate Date: 4 Jul 1878
Death Date: 13 Feb 1878
Death Place: Lancaster, England
Registry: Lancaster
Citing this record
'Thomas Duckett Senior', 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/person.php?id=ann_1291674021, accessed 04 Oct 2023]
