Sculptor, painter and printmaker, born in Cheshire. After attending Liverpool University went to the School of Art there, 1916–7, under William Penn. Also worked in Frank Brangwyn’s studio in the 1920s and studied sculpture in London and Paris. Exhibited at the RA, RWS, St George’s Gallery, in Budapest, Prague and Moscow; one-man exhibitions at Architectural Association Gallery. His work is held by the Victoria & Albert Museum, Brompton Oratory, Worthing Town Hall and the Marx-Engels Museum, Moscow. He made a number of portrait busts, including the journalist Hannen Swaffer for the London Press Club, Karl Marx, Lenin and the British Communist leader Harry Pollitt, some of these pieces being in the Soviet Union. In 1958 he was master of the Art Workers’ Guild.