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Edward Hodges Baily

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BAILY, EDWARD HODGES (1788-1867), British sculp tor, the son of a carver of ship's figureheads, was born at Bristol on May io, 1788. At school and in the commercial office which he entered on leaving school he made wax models and busts of his fellows, and in 1807 began to study under Flaxman ; in 1809 he entered the academy schools. In 1821 he became R.A. Baily executed the bas reliefs on the south side of Marble Arch in Hyde Park, and many statues in London, notably that of Nelson in Trafalgar square. He died at Holloway, London, on May 22, 1867.