Edmund Sharp
Other names: surname also spelt 'Sharpe' in some documents
Born 1853
Died 1930
Active: 1875 - 1930
Country of birth: England
Country of death: Ireland
Sculptor, ecclesiastical sculptor, marble merchant
Born in Maidstone, Kent. He was the son of Charles Sharpe (sic) (born c.1800 in Maidstone, Kent) a bricklayer. A short profile of Edmund Sharp (with photograph of him on cover of the issue) was given in 'The Stone Trades Journal, vol XXII, no 11, May 1904, pp. 253-4. This article states he had published a book or pamphlet entitled 'Our Altars and How to Select Them' and that his most important work to date was the shrine in Carrara marble in the Augustinian Church in Dublin.
Locations
Address 22 Wellington Road St Leonards Hastings | View on map
1871 (Circa)
Lodging at this address
Institutional and Business Connections
Employee of P. J. O' Neill & Co.
1875
p. 30.
Partner in Pearse and Sharp
1886
'Marble Merchants'.
Traded as Edmund Sharp
1875 - 1930
Not known if the business was run by Edmund Sharp for all of this time or whether it was taken over by a son or other relative prior to his death in 1930.
Sources
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861
2004
Class: RG9; Piece: 512; Folio: 57; Page: 25; GSU roll: 542652
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
2004
Class: RG10; Piece: 1033; Folio: 112; Page: 25; GSU roll: 827477
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: Edmund Sharp
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1853
Registration district: Maidstone
Inferred County: Kent
Volume: 2a
Page: 374
Ireland, Civil Registration Deaths Index, 1864-1958
2011
Name: Edmund Sharp
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1853
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1930
Death Age: 77
Registration district: Dublin South
Death Country: Ireland
Volume: 2
Page: 379
FHL Film Number: 101738
Pearse Street, Dublin 2: A Study of the Past, A Vision for the Future, 2001
2001
p. 30.
Citing this record
'Edmund Sharp', 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=msib3_1209500537, accessed 01 Mar 2021]
