WOOLNER, Thomas, English sculptor and poet: b. Hadleigh, Suffolk, 17 Dec. 1825; d. London, 7 Oct. 1892. At 12 he was placed in the studio of William Behnes, in 1842 en tered the schools of the Royal Academy, and in the following year his first work, 'Eleanor Sucking the Poison from the Arm of Prince Edward,' was exhibited. His first work to attract attention was 'The Death of Boadicea' (1844), and this success was followed by (1846) ; 'Puck' (1847) ; 'Titania and Her Indian Boy' (1848), and 'Eros and Euphrosyne' (1848). About 1850 he was asso ciated with Rossetti and the other artists who formed the °Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood," in founding the short-lived but famous periodical called The Germ. His contributions, which were in verse, were collected and pub lished, with additions, under the name 'My Beautiful Lady' (1863). Woolner visited Australia in 1852, and one of his first works on his return was a life-size statue of Lord Bacon for the Oxford Museum. Among his more important works are 'Elaine with the Shield of Sir Lancelot' ; Memoriam' (1870) ; 'Guinevere' (1872) ; 'Lady Godiva' (1876); portrait busts of Carlyle, Tennyson, Darwin, Newman, Glad stone, Kingsley and Dickens, and statues of Lord Macaulay for Trinity College, Cam bridge (1866), Sir Bartle Frere for Bombay (1872), Dr. Whewell for Trinity College, Cam
bridge (1873), Lord Lawrence for Calcutta (1875), J. S. Mill for the Thames Embank ment (1878), Captain Cook for Sydney (1879), Sir Stamford Rallies for Singapore (1887) and Lord Palmerston for Palace Yard, Westminster. He became a Royal Academician in 1874, and for a time was professor of sculpture in the Academy. His fame as a sculptor has over shadowed his reputation as a poet, but 'Pyg malion' (1881), (1884), 'Tiresias' (1886) and 'Poems' (1887) give him honorable rank among the minor poets of his time. Con sult Garnett, in 'Dictionary of National Biog raphy.'