Francis William Doyle-Jones

Francis William Doyle Jones, sometimes Francis William Doyle-Jones, (11 November 1873–10 June 1938) was a British sculptor. Although principally a portrait sculptor, Jones is notable for the number of war memorials he created for British towns and cities following both the Boer War and World War I.

Biography Jones was born, to Irish parents, in Hartlepool. He was the eldest son of a stonemason and monumental sculptor, Francis Jones (c. 1846–1918), from County Monaghan and for a time worked for his father before studying in Paris. After graduating, Jones established a studio at Chelsea in west London and had his first sculpture shown at the Royal Academy in 1903. Between then and 1936, Jones had about thirty works, including portraits and statuettes, exhibited at the Academy. Following the end of World War I Jones won several commissions for further public war memorials. He created several designs, including cenotaphs, for these works but in some instances, such as for the memorials at Woking, Gravesend and Brighouse he used a common design with a figure of Victory standing on a globe and holding a wreath of laurel leaves. From 1923 onwards, he was a regular exhibitor with the Royal Hibernian Academy, RHA, in Dublin.

1910–1919

1920–1929

1930 and later

Other works At the Royal Academy in 1909, Jones exhibited the silver relief sculpture White Horses, which was inspired by a Rudyard Kipling poem and was designed for Harley Hall near Northallerton. The offering of youth on the altar of patriotism, a relief shown at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1925.