Aubrey Eric Stacy Aumonier [commonly known as Eric Aumonier] was born in Northwood, Middlesex [now London], England on 5 May 1899. He was a member of an established family of architectural sculptors and wood carvers that included his grandfather, William Aumonier Senior (1839-1914), founder of William Aumonier & Son [later W. Aumonier & Sons]; his father, William Aumonier Junior (1869-1943); and his brother, William Whitworth Aumonier (1896-1975).

He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London; and at Central School of Arts and Crafts in London before joining the family business in the early 1920s. By 1931 he was in charge of the studio of studio as W. Aumonier & Sons.

Work by Aumonier included carved wood and stone carved reliefs for London Underground stations in the 1920s and 1930s, and for 55 Broadway, the headquarters in St. James's, London of the Underground Electric Railways Company, designed by Charles Holden, and built between 1927 and 1929; two terracotta panels on East Sheen cinema in 1930; two relief sculptures for the foyer of the Daily Express Building in London in 1932; Royal Arms for the British Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair; historical figures on the moving staircase to heaven for the Powell and Pressburger 1946 film 'A Matter of Life and Death'; the White Knight statue for the Festival of Britain in 1951; a giant nursery rhyme figures for the Food Fair at Olympia in 1960; and a clock for Fortnum & Mason in Piccadilly, London in the 1960s.

Aumonier was elected a member of the Art Workers Guild in 1950. He was also a member of the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society. In the late 1960s, ill health forced his retirement and he and his wife emigrated to New Zealand. He died in Ashburton, New Zealand in 1974.

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