George Hugh Bindon
Born 1851
Died 1922
Active: 1876 - 1911
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, stone carver
Born in Bristol between October and December. Son of James Gregory Bindon, grocer. George probably studied at the Royal West of England Academy in the 1870s. Around the age of thirty, he moved to London and began exhibiting at the Royal Academy whilst continuing his education at the South London Technical School of Art. Before 1891 he moved to Lichfield where he worked until the early 1900s. Bindon was back in south London by 1911 where he was employed as a sculptor. He may have died in south London in 1922 or Bristol in 1926.
Works
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Gertrude
1876 (Presumed)
Portrait of a Gentleman
1877 (Presumed)
Portrait of a boy
1877 (Presumed)
Locations
Address 24 Trinity Street St. Philip's Bristol | View on map
1871 (Circa)
Address 20 Bellvue Crescent Clifton Wood Bristol | View on map
1876 - 1877
Address 189 Fentiman Road South Lambeth London | View on map
1886 (Presumed)
Address 25 Lucretia Road Kennington London | View on map
1887 (Circa)
Address 7 Mount Pleasant Lichfield | View on map
1892 (Circa) - 1893 (Circa)
Address Birmingham Road Lichfield | View on map
1901 (Circa)
Address 141 High Street Collier's Wood London | View on map
1911 (Circa)
Listed under 'Students' under Professional Members. Presumed to be a student of the Academy. Duration of study unknown but ended by about 1881 when he moved to London.
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Exhibition of the Bristol Academy, Works of Modern Artists, The Thirty-First, 1876
1876
Exhibited at Exhibition of the Bristol Academy, Works of Modern Artists, The Thirty-Second, 1877
1877
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1886 - 1893
Exhibited four times, four works in all (two busts, a medallion and a portrait relief)
Institutional and Business Connections
Student at The Royal West of England Academy
1876
Listed under 'Students' under Professional Members. Presumed to be a student of the Academy. Duration of study unknown but ended by about 1881 when he moved to London.
Student at South London Technical School of Art (also Lambeth School of Art and City and Guilds of London Art School)
1881 (Circa) - 1885 (Circa)
Studied for four years, starting at the age of thirty.
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
'Carver in Marble'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
'Sculptor' employed
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Sculptor (modeller & carver)' worker
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Sculptor' worker
Sources
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
2004
RG10 piece 2536 folio 10 page 12
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
2004
RG12 piece 2212 folio 106 page 10
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2001
RG13 piece 2654 folio 156 page 30
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2009
RG14PN3446 RG78PN129 RD39 SD6 ED26 SN95
England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2007
2007
Name: George H Bindon
Birth Date: abt 1852
Date of Registration: Jun 1922
Age at Death: 70
Registration district: Croydon
Inferred County: Surrey
Volume: 2a
Page: 467
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: George Hugh Bindon
Year of Registration: 1851
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Clifton
County: Gloucestershire
Volume: 11
Page: 269
Report of the South London Technical School of Art (City and Guilds of London Institute), 1888
June 1888
p. 9
Citing this record
'George Hugh Bindon', 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=msib1_1218105636, accessed 23 Jan 2020]
