Louis Deuchars

He helped her to run the classes attended by the local villagers, who modelled the decorative terra cotta tiles for the chapel.

Fortunately, the architect Robert Lorimer had just embarked on his commission for the new Chapel of the Knights of the Order of the Thistle at St Giles Cathedral.

Deuchars's style of modelling appealed to Lorimer with the result that he made all the plaster models for the figure work, inside and outside, carved either in stone by Joseph Hayes & his men, in oak by the Clow brothers, or in bronze cast by the Bromsgrove Guild.

After that his commissions from Lorimer declined, but, working independently, he did model a large Madonna & Child, a memorial to Miss McLaggan, in Old Saint Paul's, Edinburgh.

Louis Deuchars died on 19 September 1927 and was buried at Saughton Cemetery in south-west Edinburgh.