James Philip
Granite mason
Served apprenticeship as a granite cutter with Arthur Taylor in the Jute Street works, with whom he was to have a lifetime association. Although based at Jute Street and famous locally, he was also "loaned out" to do work at yards nationally.
Credited works include:
War Memorial Lion, Cowdray Hall
Edward VII (corner of Union Street and Union Terrace)
Peace statue (now in the courtyard of Duthie Park winter gardens)
Inverurie War Memorial
Resurrection Monument in the Necropolis, Glasgow
Nurse Cavell National Memorial
8 figures on the Titanic Memorial, Liverpool
Commonly held among Aberdeen's finest craftsmen, an artist in granite.
Froghall Granite Works, founded 1877
Granite Merchant and Manufacturer, active c.1882-1956
Worcestershire, England, 1579 - 1658
Aberdeen, Scotland, founded 1866
1851 - 1919
Aberdeen, Scotland, active 1841 - 1875
Italy, died 1950
Aberdeen, Scotland, born 1956
Medfield, Massachusetts, USA, 1868 - 1951
Aberdeen, Scotland, 1892 - 1988
Invergordon, Scotland, 1872 - 1905
1805
Mook, Netherlands, 1935 - 2016
Edinburgh, Scotland, born 1943
City Granite Works, 1906 - 1983
Aberdeen, Scotland
Aberdeen, Scotland, 1822 - 1982
1887 - 1983
Hastings, England, 1871 - 1959
Glasgow, Scotland, born 1974
Aberdeen, Scotland, 1888 - 1975
