The Revd Allan Gairdner Wyon FRBS RMS (1882 - 26 February 1962) was a British die-engraver and sculptor and, in later life, vicar in Newlyn, Cornwall.
Many of his works are memorials with a number located in British cathedrals.[1] Other, more decorative, works include the relief of a male figure representing the East Wind on the London Underground headquarters building at 55 Broadway above St. James's Park Underground Station.[1]
Wyon was born in 1882, the son of Allan Wyon FSA (1843–1907) and Harriet Gairdner.[2] Wyon's father, two of his uncles, his grandfather and his great-grandfather successively held the position of Chief Engraver of Seals to the monarch.[2]
Wyon attended Highgate School and, like others in his family, studied sculpture at The Royal Academy Schools where he was an assistant to Hamo Thornycroft.[2] Between 1924 and 1930 he was Honorary Secretary of the Art Workers Guild. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and also worked as a die-engraver, but took Holy Orders in 1933. From 1936 until his retirement in 1955, he was vicar of St. Peters Church, Newlyn.[1]
He married Eileen May Trench in 1910; they had one daughter.[1] He had three sisters, Olive, and two others. One an Anglican Deaconess and the other a Congregational Minister.
Wyon exhibited a wide range of sculptures, busts medals and engravings at the Royal Academy. He designed commemorative and memorial medals for the Masons, the London Chamber of Commerce, and Lloyd's.[1]
Sculptured memorials in Salisbury Cathedral by Wyon include those to:[1]
Other memorials include those to:[1]
Other works:
