[1] His father was James Whelan (c.1879-1951) and his mother was Mary Alexander (born c. 1879).
Mr. Tom Whalen, the noted Scottish sculptor, much of whose work can be seen on churches and public buildings, has died in hospital in Edinburgh.
He came first to the public notice in the early 1930s when his burnished bronze, Speed had a place in the Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition.
In 1932 he won an RSA travelling scholarship and he visited Rome and Florence.
One of his most recent public commissions was the sunburst on the Brunton Hall at Musselburgh, and during the 1973 Edinburgh Festival a retrospective exhibition of 50 of his works was presented by the Saltire Society.