Artist in oil and clay (for bronze), graphic designer and teacher, who studied at Slade School of Fine Art under William Coldstream, Reg Butler and Henry Moore. Birks-Hay was an Oxford School of Art lecturer, 1959–63, was head of Art at Radley College, 1961–3, then freelanced. Group shows included RA, RWA and MAFA. Had solo exhibitions at Keble College, Oxford, 1961; Rotunda Gallery, 1970; and Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne, 1991. Portraits in oil or bronze and landscapes in oil were Birks-Hay’s main works. St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and many private collections held examples. In 1973 he won the Westward Television Sculpture Award. Arts Club member who lived in Marston Magna, Yeovil, Somerset. Sometimes worked as Tony Birks. He was also a noted writer on ceramics, his book The Alchemy of Sculpture appearing in 1998.