Percy Portsmouth

[1][2] He was born in Reading, England, in 1874, the son of Robert John Portsmouth, a blacksmith from Southampton.

[5] Around August 1903, shortly after marrying, he got a job teaching sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art and moved to 65 Warrender Park Road in the Marchmont district.

He lived briefly at 10 Viewforth Square, before returning to Marchmont in 1905 to 40 Warrender Park Terrace.

In 1929 he retired as Professor of Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art and moved to England where he lived at "Youngloves" in Rushden, Hertfordshire.

[10] The couple lived briefly at the parental home 40 Wilkinson Street in Lambeth before moving to Edinburgh.