Born Chelsea. Died Lambeth.
Bolckow's Flickr page shows another McCarthy memorial, to Cardinal Herbert Alfred Vaughan, and asserts that McCarthy had worked for John Francis Bentley at Westminster Cathedral for many years.
Source: Mapping Sculpture, where it seems there is little known about him.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Henry William McCarthy
Carved into the panel behind the figure are images of the original Globe Thea...
Sculptor. Born Staffordshire. Early rheumatic fever made him unfit for active service in 1914 so he served on the home front casting and moulding false limbs for amputees. Died at home in Mayfield,...
Artist and sculptor. Born Chelsea. Served on the Western Front in WW1 and was invalided out in June 1915.
Sculptor. Born in the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields. Much admired in his day, his work can be seen at St Paul's and at Westminster Abbey. In 1729, leaving a tavern at Christmas, he slipped and ...
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