Alexander Handyside Ritchie

He also worked with and trained John Rhind, Alexander Munro and George Anderson Lawson.

In 1854, he moved his studio to Mound Place in the centre of Edinburgh, living nearby at 92 Princes Street.

[3] He retired in 1861, but maintained a studio at Coates Place in Edinburgh, where he held a final exhibition in 1862.

He returned to his family home at Herkes Loan, Musselburgh and spent his final years in the care of his sister Euphemia.

It is marked as being erected by his "brother sculptors WB and JR" presumed to be William Brodie and John Rhind.