Sculptor. Sydney March, son of George Henry March and his wife Elizabeth Blenkin March, was born in 1876 in Stoneferry, Hull, East Yorkshire, England. The second of nine children, all but one of his siblings were artists. The prolific sculptor produced numerous art pieces, particularly war memorials, and busts and statues of British royalty and other historic figures. One of his most famous pieces was the National War Memorial of Canada, which was unveiled by King George VI on May 21, 1939. After the 1930 death of his brother Vernon March, who had been awarded the commission, he and his sister Elsie March, as the two remaining sculptors in the family, took the lead in completing the war memorial with their brothers. One of his first commissions was the portrait bust of King Edward VII that he sculpted in 1901 for Windsor Castle, which is now at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Also at the National Portrait Gallery is his bronze bust of statesman Cecil Rhodes. The Bromley War Memorial, erected in 1922, and his monument to Colonel Samuel Bevington, erected in 1911, are both listed on the National Heritage List for England. His United Empire Loyalist Monument, unveiled in 1929 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, was the basis of a commemorative plate issued in 1932, and a stamp issued in 1934. The Lancaster Monument at East Sheen Cemetery in Richmond, Surrey, England, another structure on the National Heritage List for England, has been described by author Hugh Meller as "arguably the most dramatic sculpture in any of London's cemeteries." Sydney March sculpted the bronze angel monument that marks the site of the March family graves in Saint Giles the Abbot Cemetery in Farnborough. He died at age 92 in 1968, and his ashes were buried in the family plot on June 22, 1968.