BOEHM, SIR JOSEPH EDGAR, BART. British sculptor, was born of Hungarian parentage on July 4, 1834, at Vienna, where his father was director of the imperial mint. After studying the plastic art in Italy and at Paris, he worked for a few years as a medallist in his native city. The colossal statue of Queen Victoria, executed in marble (1869) for Windsor Castle, and the monument of the duke of Kent in St. George's chapel, were his earliest considerable works. He was made A.R.A. in 1878, and produced soon afterwards the statue of Carlyle on the Thames embankment at Chelsea. In 1881 he was appointed sculp tor in ordinary to the queen, and in the ensuing year became full academician. Among his important works in London are the sar cophagus of Dean Stanley in Westminster Abbey; the monument to General Gordon in St. Paul's cathedral; and the equestrian statue of the duke of Wellington at Hyde Park Corner. Boehm designed the coinage for the jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887. He died suddenly in his studio at South Kensington on Dec. 12, 1890.