Henry Richard Hope-Pinker [also known as Henry Pinker; and as Henry R. Pinker] was born in Peckham, Surrey [now London], England in c.1849 [1], and served an apprenticeship under his father, Henry Pinker (c.1827-?) who was a stonemason and builder in in Hove, Sussex. He also attended Royal Academy Schools in London in the 1870s. Hope-Pinker worked mainly as a portrait sculptor and exhibited with the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society in London in 1899. He also exhibited at the International Society of Sculptors, Painters & Gravers, and Royal Academy in London; and at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. He created a number of public monuments and busts including of Queen Victoria at George Town, Demerara, Guyana; and Henry Fawcett fir the Marketplace, Salisbury, Wiltshire; and of Charles Darwin, Raphael Weldon and John Scott Burdon-Sanderson for the Museum of Natural History, Oxford University.