Walter Gilbert was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 sculptor.

Biography

Walter Gilbert was born in Rugby, England. He studied at the Birmingham Municipal School of Art under Benjamin Creswick

Benjamin Creswick

-Life:Benjamin Creswick was born in Sheffield, the son of a spectacle-maker. He started his working life as a knife-grinder, but took up sculpture with the encouragement of John Ruskin. In 1887 he modelled a terracotta frieze showing the processes of knife-grinding for the exterior of Cutlers'...

 in the early 1890s.

From 1898 to 1900 he was headmaster of the Bromsgrove School of Art. In 1898 he founded the Bromsgrove Guild

Bromsgrove Guild

The Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts was a company of modern artists and designers associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement, founded by Walter Gilbert. The guild worked in metal, wood, plaster, bronze, tapestry, glass and other mediums....

 in partnership with the landowner William Whitehouse and the Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

 architects Crouch and Butler. Gilbert was the director of the firm from 1899. From 1918 he was employed by H.H. Martyn of Cheltenham, a firm of architectural decorators and furnishers. .

He died at Littlehampton, England.

Works

Of Gilbert’s many works, one of the most remarkable was the Burnley War Memorial in the grounds of Towneley Hall (pictured at right) outside Burnley in Lancashire, England.