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Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1926, Page 4

Mi: DKRWE.VT WOOD DEAD. I.O.VDOX. l'VI). 20. ■Mi- Francis Derwent Wood, li.A., ilio sculptor. diod in ii London nursing homo yesterday morning niter :i recent serious operation. | Born at Keswick in IS7I, Mr DerI went Wood began his artistic career at Karlsruhe. Germany, and returned Ito England in 188!). He won several honours in his younger days, and after serving as modelling master at the Glasgow Art Schools he was appointed Professor of Sculpture at the Royal j College of Art. His principal works as a sculptor have been the Machine Gun Corps Memorial'at Hyde Park Corner. Queen Victoria statue for Patiala. India, the Pitt statue for Washington. to celebrate 100 years of peace, and statues of Sir Titus Salt, at Saltairo. anti the Rev. C. H. •Spurgeon, at the Baptist Church House. From 1804 Mr Wood was an exhibitor at the Royal Aoademv. and was elected A.B A. in 1010 and R.A. in 1020. During the war he was in charge of the modelling of masks for the Facial Wounds Department, and his remarkable success in preparing new faces for badly wounded men gained hint a commission. At the Peace Conference he was employed by the British Government to reproduce the features of the Allies’ leading soldiers and states- , men. ,

Speaking to a reporter at the time, Mr (then Captain) Wood said: “Sculpture not only takes its place beside painting, but it lias still more advantages. For example, sculpture has a unique quality, it lasts. Without sculpture what lifelike souvenirs