Allan Gairdner Wyon [also known as Reverend Allan Gairdner Wyon and Allan G. Wyon] was born in St. Pancras, London, England on 1 June 1882, and was the son of Allan Wyon, Chief Engraver of Seals to Queen Victoria. After studying at the Royal Academy Schools in London from 1905 to 1910, he worked as assistant to the sculptor William Hamo Thornycroft (1850-1925) in 1910-11. From 1918 to 1923 he taught evening classes in modelling at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts in London.

Wyon was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy in London from 1908 to 1956. He also exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh from 1916 to 1932; the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin in 1919; and at the Royal Society of Miniature Painters in London; the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol; and at the Paris Salon. He participated in the exhibitions of the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society in London in 1912 and 1926.

He was elected an Associate of Royal Society of British Sculptors (ARBS) in 1923; a Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors (FRBS) in 1926; and a member of the Art Workers Guild in 1919.

Among his commissions were monuments in Salisbury Cathedral, Truro Cathedral, Hereford Cathedral and St. Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh; war memorials for Shrewsbury in Shropshire, and for Cambrian Railways in Oswestry, Shropshire; and 'East Wind', a sculpture for the façade of the south side of the west wing at 55 Broadway, headquarters of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London.

In 1933 Wyon was ordained a minister in the Church of England and from 1936 to 1955 was vicar of St. Peter's Church in Newlyn, Cornwall. He died in in King’s Lynn, Norfolk on 26 February 1962.

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