Allan G. Wyon

Allan Gairdner Wyon FRBS RMS (1882 – 26 February 1962) was a British die-engraver and sculptor and, in later life, vicar in Newlyn, Cornwall.

Many of his works are memorials with a number located in British cathedrals. Other, more decorative, works include the relief of a male figure representing the East Wind on the London Underground headquarters building at 55 Broadway above St James's Park Underground Station. William Wyon (1795-1851) was official chief engraver at the Royal Mint.

Wyon attended Highgate School and, like others in his family, studied sculpture in London from 1905 to 1909 at the Royal Academy. From 1910 to 1911 he was an assistant sculptor to Hamo Thornycroft. The figure of St Michael, Shropshire War memorial, Shrewsbury. Female standing figure with laurel wreath, Hinckley and District War Memorial. The Richard Corfield Memorial, at Marlborough College. Joseph Watson, 1st Baron Manton, in Leeds Infirmary, Great George Street Entrance Hall, unveiled 1931. Allan G. Wyon's brother Guy Alfred Wyon (1883–1924), in Old Leeds School of Medicine in Thoresby Place, Leeds.

Other works: The Sorrows of Mankind, 1920 Egyptian Nude, 1917 Madonna and Child, Newlyn Church Cornwall Christ the leader, In the South Transept of St Columb Major Church, Cornwall New Birth, 1931, West wall of the baptistery of St Columb Major Church, Cornwall Lion on Rock, 1920 Seal for the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine on 55 Broadway, headquarters of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (now London Underground) Bronze Plaques of Kenrick and Jefferson previously at Kenrick and Jefferson Printing Works Ltd http://blackcountryhistory.org/collections/getrecord/GB146_BS-KJ/ now privately owned