Timothy Butler (1806–1885) was a 19th-century British figurative sculptor. His most noteworthy public works are the dolphin lamps lining the Thames Embankment which date from 1870 and were the first lights to be electrified (1878).

Life

He was born in Caversham in

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in 1806. He won a silver medal at the Society of Arts in 1824. He entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1825 at the recommendation of William Behnes. He won the

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's silver medal in 1827. He exhibited at the

from 1828 until 1879. Around 1850 he tutored

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. From 1851 he lived at 1 Middlesex Place in London. From 1860 he lived at Marylebone Road. He died at 186 Euston Road near St Pancras in London on 6 September 1885

Family

His daughter Clehorow Caroline Butler was also a sculptor.

Works

*Bust of Thomas Musgrave, Bishop of Hereford (1839) exhibited at

*Bust of the

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(1841) exhibited at

*Bust of Sir James Eyre (1842) for Corporation of

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*Bust of

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(1844) exhibited at

*Bust of the Hon Mrs Norton (1844) for Richard Brinsley Sheridan *Bust of Dr Woolff (1846) exhibited at

*Bust of

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(1851) at Royal College of Surgeons *Statue of the Earl of Leicester (1858) on Dereham Town Hall *Bust of

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(1860) exhibited at

*Bust of Sir Richard Kirby (1862) exhibited at

*Statue of Prof

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at Staff College

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*Busts of Thomas Eton and his wife (1865) Bristol General Hospital *Bust of Dr William Clark (1866) Trinity College, Cambridge *Bust of Lord Rollo (1867) exhibited at Royal Academy *Bust of

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(1868) Cambridge Town Hall *Lion Heads capping sewage work outlets at South Bank Embankment (1870) *Ornate lamps on Embankment (1870) *Bust of Arthur Purvis (1870)

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*Statue of Richard Cobden (1877) at

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Town Hall *Bust of T. Hughes (1878) exhibited at

*Bust of Hugh Falconer at Royal Society of London *Bust of Charles Kahn *Bust of Prof Edward Turner *Bust of Edward R. Daniell

Graves

*James Ince at Hadley in

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(1829) *Anne Marriott at

Horsmonden Horsmonden ( ) is a village in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England. The village is located in the Weald of Kent. It is situated on a road leading from Maidstone to Lamberhurst, three miles north of the latter place. The nearest railwa ...

in Kent (1831) *Lady Thompson at

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in Hampshire (1833) *William Prescott at

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(1836) *Lord Douglas Hallyburton in Kensal Green Cemetery (1841) *James Ince Jr at Hadley (1845) *Edward Miller at

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in Kent (1846) *

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pugilist (1849) in Brompton Cemetery *Charles Ince at Hadley (1850) *General Peter de la Motte in Kensal Green Cemetery (1861)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Butler, Timothy 1806 births 1885 deaths 19th-century British sculptors 19th-century English male artists Alumni of the Royal Academy Schools People from Caversham, Reading