OBITUARY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 90, 26 January 1938, Page 5

OBITUARY.

CAPTAIN ADRIAN JONES. j (United Ptess Association—Copyright.) LUNIDUN, Jan. 24. Captain Adrian Jones, the English sculptor, is dead, aged 92. Captain Jones, who was originally a soldier, was born in, February, 1845, andw educated at Ludlow Grammar School. Joining the Army, he saw much active service in the next 23 years as an officer successively of the 3rd Hussars, the Queen’s Boys, and the 2nd Life Guards. He took part in the Abyssinian war of 1868, the South African conflict of 1881, and the Nile expedition. iVlost of his spare time was devoted to sculpture, in which he had an exceptional gift for expressing vigorous action without sacrifice of beauty. Eventually he left the Army to devote all his time to art. His first public piece of statuary was a memorial to marines who were killed in the operations against the Chinese “Boxers” in 1900. The group was erected in 1903 by the late King George, then Prince of Wales. In 1906 his plaque to the memory of the Carabineers who fell in the South African War was unveiled by Lord Roberts. A year later he won a competition, for a design tor an equestrian statue of the Duke of Cambridge, and the figure now stands in Whitehall.

Captain Jones’s greatest work, however, was the Quadriga of Peace, which surmounts the arch at the Piccadilly end of Constitution Hill. Begun in 190'8, it took four years to complete.