page_title: Sydney March
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Sydney March / Career
caption_attribution_description: w:en:United Empire Loyalist statue and plaque in front of 50 Main Street East, w:en:Hamilton, Ontario
context_page_description: Sydney March was an English sculptor. His primary focus was portrait busts and other sculptures of British royalty and contemporary figures, as well as war memorials. The second-born of eight artists in his family, he and his siblings completed the National War Memorial of Canada after the death of their brother Vernon March in 1930, who had created the winning design. It is the site in Ottawa of annual Remembrance Day ceremonies.
  Among his many commissions, Sydney March also made a memorial to United Empire Loyalists, which was erected in 1929 in Hamilton, Ontario. Several of the siblings never married; they lived and worked together at "Goddendene", a 17-room house in Farnborough, Kent, England. They had three large studios and an iron foundry on the grounds.
context_section_description: March and his siblings established studios at the family home of Goddendene in Locksbottom, Farnborough after 1901. They made three large studios on the seven-acre grounds, and a metal foundry for sculptures. The studio walls could be slid back, such that the artists could work in natural daylight. The ceilings of the studios were so tall that parachutes could be hung to dry here during the war.
  In 1900, the Royal Academy Schools awarded Sydney March first prize, a silver medal, for a model of a statue or group. Between 1906 and 1932, he exhibited thirteen times at te Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts. He exhibited a total of seventeen works at the Royal Academy, primarily portrait busts, statuettes, and equestrian statues.
  In addition to casting works at the family foundry, March also had his work cast by the silversmith and bronze foundry of Elkington & Co. One of March's first commissions was a bust of Edward VII. This prompted a visit by the British Royal Family to the family home of Goddendene.
  Selected works included:
  Coronation portrait bust, "King Edward VII" (1841–1910), 1901, for Windsor Castle, in the National Portrait Gallery in London since 1924.
  Bronze portrait bust of "Cecil John Rhodes" (1853–1902), South African imperialist and statesman, 1901, held in the National Portrait Gallery since 1960.
  Monument to Colonel Samuel Bourne Bevington, philanthropist, first mayor of Bermondsey, bronze statue in mayoral robes on stone base, erected 1910, on Tooley Street in London. Listed as a Grade II structure on the National Heritage List for England on 27 September 1972 and amended on 17 September 1998.
  Equestrian statue of Lord Kitchener, Commander in Chief of the Indian Army, 1914, installed in Calcutta.
  Bronze bust of Field Marshal Sir John French, 1st Earl of Ypres (1857–1925), commander of the British Expeditionary Force from August 1914 to December 1915, produced during WWI.
  Equestrian statue of Lord Kitchener, installed at Kitchener Barracks on Khartoum Road in Chatham. Added to the National Heritage List for England on 24 May 1971. Amended 21 November 1996. Listed as a Grade II structure.
  Bromley Parish Church Memorial, to commemorate the parishioners who died in World War I, 1921, at Saint Peter and Saint Paul Church on Church Road in Bromley, Kent.
  Bromley War Memorial, square obelisk constructed of Portland stone with three bronze figures, which represent Liberty, Victory, and Peace. Victory in the center, winged and holding a laurel wreath. Flanked by Liberty, with a torch, and Peace, with flowers of remembrance. At Martin's Hill on Glassmill Lane in Bromley, Kent. Erected 1922. Listed as a Grade II structure on the National Heritage List for England on 14 December 1995.
  United Empire Loyalist Monument, unveiled on Empire Day 23 May 1929, at Prince's Square on Main Street East in Hamilton, Ontario. Gift to the city of Hamilton from Stanley Mills. The basis of a commemorative plate issued in 1932. Also the basis of a stamp issued on Dominion Day, 1 July 1934. Unveiled for the second time on 25 June 1958 by Governor General Vincent Massey. Depicts a family of Loyalists just after drawing their lot number from the surveyor.
  Lancaster Monument at East Sheen Cemetery on Sheen Road in Richmond, Surrey, England. Marks the graves of George William Lancaster (died 1920) and Louisa Mary Lancaster (died 1922). Constructed of Portland stone and bronze. Listed as a Grade II* structure on the National Heritage List for England on 5 March 1992. Described by Hugh Meller, author of London Cemeteries: An Illustrated Guide & Gazetteer, as "arguably the most dramatic sculpture in any of London's cemeteries."  The title of the piece is "The Angel of Death".
caption: United Empire Loyalist Monument
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