Henry Alfred Pegram

Henry Alfred Pegram RA (27 July 1862 – 26 March 1937) was a British sculptor and exponent of the New Sculpture movement.

In 1913, he was one of the ten sculptors selected to work on the city hall of Cardiff, for which he sculpted the figure of Llewelyn the Last.

His eldest daughter, Doris Joan Pegram (12 June 1886 – 1 November 1979),[3][4] married one of the brothers, the artist and illustrator H. M. Brock RI (11 July 1875 – 21 July 1960)[5][6] on 7 September 1912.

[7] The illustrator Fred Pegram RI (19 December 1870 – 23 August 1937),[8] and his brother, the sculptor and medallist Alfred Bertram Pegram[9] (17 January 1873 – 14 January 1941)[10][11] were first cousins to both Henry Alfred and the Brocks.

Henry Alfred Pegram died of a cerebral haemorrhage,[12] on 26 March 1937 in his home, 72 Belsize Park Gardens, Belsize Park, Hampstead, London.

Pegram c. 1903
Into the Silent Land by Henry Pegram, Golders Green Crematorium
Pegram's Nymph and Merman
Edith Cavell monument at Norwich Cathedral