Omar Ramsden

He lived on Fir Street in Walkley, Sheffield, Yorkshire, but spent his entire career working in London.

Following their competition success, they moved to London, establishing the Ramsden & Carr studio together in Chelsea, but their partnership ended in 1919.

[19] This includes a St Edward the Confessor chalice and paten given by the Girls' Friendly Society on the occasion of their golden jubilee in 1925,[20] a second St Edward chalice and paten given by Admiral Sir Arthur Moore in 1927, a chalice and paten (based on a 14th century example in the Victoria & Albert Museum) for use in St Faith’s Chapel given by the widow of Sir Robert Arundell Hudson in 1928, two pairs of alms dishes given in memory of Herbert Ryle, former Dean of Westminster, in 1928, a silver alms dish given by Carol Rivett (the crime novelist ECR Lorac), as well as two wafer boxes, a set of four plain chalices and patens, a morse and a mace used by the Abbey vergers.

[22] Ramsden designed a Reliquary of the True Cross for the columbarium at the St Mary's, Bourne Street clergy house.

[25] A Festival of the Arts took place in Coventry in 1938 and Ramsden designed an altar cross and candlesticks for the cathedral.

[26] The Grade II* listed St Dunstan's Church, Cranford has a Ramsden sanctuary lamp dating from 1937.

[29] A set of three sanctuary lamps was given as a WWI war memorial to the mission church of St Mary the Virgin, Garratt Lane, Wandsworth.

[30] However, the church suffered bomb damage in WWII, but was rebuilt, and then much later was declared redundant;[31] the lamps are now regarded as lost.

The British Museum holds a number of items, notably a mediaeval style silver girdle[33] which was a wedding present to his wife.

[34] Amongst other items,[35] the V&A holds a very late bowl, from 1939–40, the Bluebird of Happiness, inspired by Maurice Maeterlinck’s play L’Oiseau bleu, The Blue Bird.