T. Mewburn Crook

Thomas Mewburn Crook (4 December 1869 – 18 January 1949) was an English sculptor who primarily produced portraiture and ecclesiastical works, many of which were exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts.

[2][3] After working as an assistant modelling master at the Royal College of Art from 1894 to 1895, he returned to Manchester, becoming modelling master and anatomy lecturer at the Manchester School of Art from 1896 to 1905, when he moved to Chiswick in West London with his widowed mother and sisters and set up a practice.

[6] Crook's early work included decorative reliefs for Manchester Council Chamber and a life size plaster figure of St Patrick for the Church of the Sacred Heart, Thornton-Cleveleys, Liverpool.

His work is also represented as war memorials in Streetly, Felixstowe, Caterham and Raynes Park.

[9] After a bomb struck the church of Our Lady of Grace, Chiswick, which Crook and his family attended, in 1944, he endeavoured to repair considerable damage done to the Stations of the Cross produced by nineteenth-century Belgian artist Charles Bayaert.