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Onslow Ernest Whiting (1872-1937) was a sculptor and teacher. From 1901 to 1927 he worked as a teacher at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London.^[1] The sculptor Cecil Thomas was among his pupils.^[2] His best known works are war memorials. The Gloucestershire Regiment Memorial, Queen's Road, Bristol was listed in 1977. It commemorates the Boer War and consists of a bronze figure of a soldier on a granite plinth. It was unveiled by Earl Roberts in 1905.^[3] The Letchworth Cross at Station Place, Letchworth, where Whiting went to live in 1905, commemorates the fallen of the First World War and was unveiled in 1921 by Viscount Hampden.^[4] It was listed in 2013.^[5]

Whiting was a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and the Art Workers Guild and an Associate of the Guild of Art Craftsmen.^[6]

Whiting created many sculpture panels in metal as well as architectural metalwork. A panel entitled St George and the Dragon was exhibited in 1899 at the sixth exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society.^[7] He exhibited a letter-plate entitled Mercury at the exhibition of 1910, where it was for sale for £3 3s.^[8] His door knocker Prometheus Bound was shown at the Spring Exhibition of the City Art Gallery, Leeds in 1897 and was for sale by commission in bronze for £10 10s. The sculpture panel A Dream was also shown at this exhibition.^[9]

Three of his works were published in the journal Academy Architecture and Architectural Review. Field Guns Going into Action (vol. 20 (1901) 85) is a metal relief sculpture showing a vivid battle scene from the Boer War. His Designs for Bell-pushes, Finger-plates, etc. (vol.20 (1901) 87) make creative use of human figures in architectural hardware. A Young Minstrel (vol. 23 (1903) 97) is a three-dimensional sculpture of a boy playing a flute.

References

1. ^{{cite web |title=Mr Onslow Ernest Whiting |url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1208277173&search=onslow%20whiting |website=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951 |accessdate=14 March 2019}}
2. ^{{cite book |title='Thomas, Cecil' in Benezit Dictionary of Artists |date=2006 |publisher=Oxford University Press}}
3. ^{{cite web |title=Gloucestershire Regiment Memorial |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1202479 |website=Historic England}}
4. ^{{cite web |title=Letchworth Cross |url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/1168?utm_source=ukniwm&utm_medium=rw&utm_campaign=wmalaunch |website=Imperial War Museum}}
5. ^{{cite web |title=Letchworth Garden City War Memorial |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1413410 |website=Historic England}}
6. ^{{cite web |title=Mr Onslow Ernest Whiting |url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1208277173&search=onslow%20whiting |website=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951 |accessdate=14 March 2019}}
7. ^{{cite book |title=Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Sixth Exhibition. |date=1899 |pages=69}}
8. ^{{cite book |title=Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Ninth Exhibition. |date=1910 |pages=143}}
9. ^{{cite book |title=Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds |date=1897 |page=79}}