Sir Robert Stodart Lorimer ARA, RSA

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

Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1921, 1922 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1922
p. 31.

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 Royal Scottish Academy Exhibitors 1826-1990: A dictionary of artists and their work in the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy. Volume 1, A-D
1991
p. 157

The Scottish National War Memorial, A Record and Appreciation
1928 (Circa)

The Work of Sir Robert Lorimer
1931