Lorimer, Hew Martin, RSA
1907 – 1993
Hew Lorimer was the son of Sir Robert Lorimer RSA and the nephew of John Henry Lorimer RSA. He was educated at Lorretto School in Musselburgh and trained at Edinburgh College of Art initially as an architect before switching to sculpture and studying under Alexander Carrick RSA. In 1934 he studied under Eric Gill at Piggotts in Buckinghamshire and developed a love of stone as a medium. After the Second World War he moved into the family home at Kellie Castle in Fife. He specialised in figure pieces, usually of a religious nature as he was himself a devout Catholic. His most notable pieces are the monumental Our Lady of the Isles on South Uist and sculptures on the facade of the National Library of Scotland on George IV Bridge in Edinburgh. He exhibited at the RSA between 1936 and 1987, he became an Associate Member of the RSA in 1947 and an Academician in 1957.
