Sir Robert Stodart Lorimer ARA, RSA
Born 4 November 1864
Died 13 September 1929
Country of birth and death: Scotland
Architect
A biography of Lorimer is available at http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=200052 (accessed 10 September 2010)
Wealth at death: £82 4s. 11d.
Works
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Architect of Chatham Naval Memorial
1924 (Circa)
There are identical memorials at Plymouth and Portsmouth
Architect of Plymouth Naval Memorial
1924 (Circa)
Architect of Portsmouth Naval Memorial
1924 (Circa)
Architect of The miracle
1917
Architect of The Scottish National War Memorial
1918 - 1927
Commissioned The Tunnellers' Friends
1918 - 1927
Commissioned The Scottish National War Memorial: bronze handles of entrance doors
1927
Commissioned The Scottish National War Memorial: Capitals of Niches, Gargoyles, etc.
1927
Commissioned Lion and Unicorn
1927
Commissioned Heads of the Animals that Served in the War
1927
Commissioned The Carrier Pigeons
1927
Commissioned The Scottish National War Memorial: Exterior - figures of Justice and Courage. Interior - Bronze panels
1927
Commissioned The Scottish National War Memorial: Exterior and Interior - multiple statues and panels
1927
Commissioned The Scottish National War Memorial: Bronze panel in Memory of Chaplains
1927
Commissioned The Scottish National War Memorial: 'Survival of the Spirit'; figures of Freedom and Charity
1927
Commissioned The Scottish National War Memorial: Exterior - Figures of Peace and Mercy, Interior - Planets
1927
Commissioned The Scottish National War Memorial: Multiple Exterior & Interior statues and panels
1927
Commissioned The Scottish National War Memorial: Designs and cartoons for bronze frieze in shrine, etc.
1927
Commissioned The Scottish National War Memorial: Ironwork for Shrine, Casket and Doors
1927
Commissioned The Scottish National War Memorial: St Michael & architectural carving
1927
Institutional and Business Connections
Commissioned Thomas Hadden
Thistle chapel (screens in ante-chamber), Lympne Castle, Pitkerro, Rowallan, Briglands, Monzie Castle, Balcaskie, Ardkinglas, Dundervane castle, etc.
Commissioned Neil McLeod & Sons
1927
p. 30
Commissioned Charles Henshaw & Sons
1927
Commissioned McDonald & Creswick Ltd
1927
p. 30
Commissioned Allan & Sons
1927
p. 30
Commissioned Morris Singer Co.
1927
p. 30
Committee member of Royal Academy Schools
1922
Served as a member of the Selection Committee (one of six elected members) in 1922. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1921', (1922), p. 31.
Vice-chairwoman/vice-chairman of The Edinburgh College of Art
1906 - 1929
Vice-president of Scottish Society of Art Workers
1898
Worked with William and Alexander Clow (W & A Clow)
1910 (Circa) - 1927 (Circa)
Carved figures in the Chapel of the Knights of the Order of the Thistle at St Giles Cathedral (1910-11) and the figure of St Michael for the Scottish National War Memorial (from 1924)
Personal and Professional Connections
Employed Thomas Beattie
1927
p. 30
Employed Nathaniel Grieve
1927
Woodwork
Feud with James Pittendrigh MacGillivray
1928 (Circa)
MacGillivray was not commissioned for the Scottish National War Memorial - a job he thought should be his as Sculptor-in-Ordinary for Scotland. It was given instead to Louis Reid Deuchars, who MacGillivray also provoked a vendetta against till long after they both had died.
Mother/father/parent of Hew Martin Lorimer
David M. Walker, 'Lorimer, Sir Robert Stodart (1864-1929)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34600, accessed 26 Sept 2008]
Worked with Thomas Beattie
1900 (Circa) - 1913 (Circa)
Worked with Joseph Hayes
1910 (Circa)
Hayes carved from stone the vaulted roof of the Chapel of the Knights of The Thistle, St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh.
The figure work and foliage were executed from Lorimer's designs.
Worked with Phyllis Mary Bone
1918 (Circa) - 1927 (Circa)
Worked with Fanindra Nath Bose
1924
Memorial shrine, St John's Church, Perth.
Sources
Lorimer and the Edinburgh Craft Designers
1980
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
David M. Walker, ‘Lorimer, Sir Robert Stodart (1864–1929)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34600, accessed 26 Sept 2008]
Scottish National War Memorial
October 2004
Scottish Society of Art Workers: Constitution & Rules, Minute book
1898
The Edinburgh College of Art Report by the Board of Management for the session 1929-1930
1930
p. 10
The Lorimers. A family of the Arts in Fife
1983
The Scottish National War Memorial, A Record and Appreciation
1928 (Circa)
Citing this record
'Sir Robert Stodart Lorimer ARA, RSA', 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=msib6_1203420979, accessed 02 Oct 2023]