Charles Leighfield Jonah Doman

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(31 August 1884 – 19 March 1944) was a sculptor from

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Career

Born in 1884, he was the son of George L. Doman, a stone carver and monumental mason. He trained at the Nottingham School of Art from 1897 to 1901, where he was a pupil of

Joseph Else Joseph Else FRBS (8 February 1874 – 8 May 1955) was a sculptor from Nottingham best known for his work on Nottingham Council House. Career He was the son of William Else, a leather cutter, and Eliza Cowilshaw. He studied at Nottingham School ...

. Then he worked for his father and studied at the

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in South Kensington, London from 1905 to 1908. He married Selina Maud Alton in 1908 in Nottingham. Sculpture which is visible in public buildings includes the Bust of Lord Trent at Highfields Park, Nottingham, Civic Law at Nottingham Council House, and The Port of London Authority building, erected in 1928. He taught sculpture at the Putney School of Art. In 1923 he became an associate member of the

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and 1938 he was elected a Fellow. Doman designed the Allied Subjects' Medal which was issued in 1922. This medal design was produced for a War Office competition of 1921. He also designed the 1928 Armistice medal (marking 10 years since the end of the First World War) which was issued by the Royal Mint. He died on 19 March 1944 in the southwest London suburb of

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(then in the county of

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) and left an estate valued at £2,892 1s 7d. ().

Works

*Sculpture of ''Truth'',

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, 1904 *Sculpture, Port of London Authority Building, London, 1922 *Sculpture, Lloyds, Leadenhall Street, London 1925 *Sculpted relief, Liberty's, 208-222 Regent Street, London, 1925-28 *Sculpted relief ''Charity'',

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, 1929 *Sculpture of ''Civic Law'',

Nottingham Council House Nottingham Council House is the city hall of Nottingham, England. The high dome that rises above the city is the centrepiece of the skyline and presides over the Old Market Square, Nottingham, Old Market Square which is also referred to as the ...

, 1929 *Sculptural group ''Boy and Pelican'',

, 1929 *Reliefs,

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headquarters on Lenton Boulevard, Nottingham. 1931 *Relief Panel, Half Landing, Administrative Block,

Royal Masonic Hospital The Royal Masonic Hospital was a hospital in the Ravenscourt Park area of Hammersmith, west London, built and opened in 1933. The Grade II* listed building became the Ravenscourt Park Hospital in 2002, but this closed in 2006. As of May 2015 th ...

, Ravenscourt Park, London, 1933 *Bust of

Jesse Boot, 1st Baron Trent Jesse Boot, 1st Baron Trent (2 June 1850 – 13 June 1931) transformed The Boots Company, founded by his father, John Boot, into a national retailer, which branded itself as "Chemists to the Nation". Biography Jesse Boot sold his controlling ...

, Highfields Park, University of Nottingham, 1934 *Reliefs, Home Ales brewery building,

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, Nottingham, 1936 *Sculpted panel of Solicitude, exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, 1937 *Bust of Dick Sheppard, 1938

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Doman 1884 births 1944 deaths 20th-century English male artists 20th-century English sculptors Alumni of Nottingham School of Art Alumni of the Royal College of Art Artists from Nottingham English medallists British architectural sculptors English male sculptors Fellows of the Royal British Society of Sculptors