[2] He began teaching at the Nottingham School of Art around 1919 and in 1922 was made principal, in succession to Joseph Harrison, a position he held until 1939.

[3] It was during this tenure that he created some of his most famous sculpture for the new Nottingham Council House, with a work called Justice, and the two lions flanking the main entrance steps.

He was a fierce critic of the modernist style of sculpture, and railed against works produced by Jacob Epstein.

In a lecture at the Nottingham Society of Artists in 1928 he said I feel apologetic for mentioning these abnormalities and would not have done so were it not for the wide publicity accorded to them.

To me, it is an affront to the intelligence to suggest that you should admire works so destitute of beauty and so fearful in character.