THE following announcement appeared in the Morning Post on 9th May :— " Mr. Frederick Thomas Callcott, the sculptor, died recently in a nursing home at Hastings. Born at Newcastle Street, Strand, in 1854, he was educated at St. Clement Danes Grammar School, and started business in a solicitor's office, at the same time studying at the St.

Martin School of Art. Later on he went to the Royal Academy School, gaining their Gold Medal for Sculpture in 1879, the subject being ' Venus rescuing Eneas from Diomede.' He was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy, and is best known to the public by his statue of the Life-boatman on the sea front at Margate and at the Royal National Life-boat Institution, Charing Cross Road."