Lesley Cubit Bevis
Other names: known as Cubit by his friends
Born 1892 (Circa)
Died 1984
Active: 1946 - 1966
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, teacher
Born in Maidstone, Kent. He was the son of William Fish Foster Bevis (born c.1861 in Maidstone, Kent) an artificial stone manufacturer. Lesley liked to be known as 'Cubit' according to his friend, Marjorie Davidson-Smith. One of his major achievements was the seated statue of Thomas More outside Chelsea Church: http://www.chelseaoldchurch.org.uk/thomasmore (accessed 15 August 2017).
Locations
Address 41 Cheam Road Sutton London | View on map
1946 (Circa)
Address 187 Preston Road Brighton | View on map
1951 (Circa) - 1954 (Circa)
From 1957 at 58 Eccleston Square, Pimlico, London
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1946 - 1966
Exhibited 13 times (twice up to 1951), twenty-two works in all (primarily portrait heads)
Institutional and Business Connections
Teacher of modeling at Camberwell School of Art
September 1948
Listed as a teacher of week day classes in sculpture and modelling. Bevis is still listed as a teacher in the 1951-1952 prospectus, which is the last year sampled for this project.
Sources
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2001
RG13
Piece number 765
Folio 72
Page 27
England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2007
2007
First name(s) LESLIE CUBITT
Last name BEVIS
Gender Male
Birth day 29
Birth month 5
Birth year 1892
Age -
Death quarter 2
Death year 1984
District Croydon
Register number 584
County Surrey
Volume 11
Page 1532
Country England
Record set England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Deaths & burials
Collections from Great Britain, England
Citing this record
'Lesley Cubit Bevis', 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=msib4_1254137871, accessed 11 Jul 2020]
