Esmond Burton was born in East Molesey, Surrey, England on 5 October 1885 and trained as a decorative carver with Laurence Turner. He was subsequently active as a woodcarver, modeller and architectural sculptor in London from c.1911 to 1964.

He worked on the reredos of St. George’s Chapel in St. Paul’s Cathedral for the cathedral architect Mervyn Macartney (1853-1932), and collaborated with Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel (1887-1959) at the church of East Clandon, Surrey. His most substantial work was his contribution of figures to the screen of Ripon Cathedral, completed in 1948. His largest single work was a stone eagle on the Royal Air Force Memorial Screen at Brookwood Cemetery, designed by Edward Maufe. Other work included sculptural decoration for the tympanum over the central archway of the West Doors of Belfast Cathedral, and a stone frieze at the Shoe Lane underpass, near Holborn Viaduct in London.

Burton was elected a member of the Art Workers Guild in 1919. He was also a member of the Vintners’ Company and was Master in 1948-49, and a member and President of the Master Carvers’ Association.

His address was given as 53 Conduit Street, London in 1911; and 50A Red Lion Street, London in 1912 and 1964. He died in Kensington, London on 25 April 1964.

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