William Reid Dick

Sir William Reid Dick (1879 - 1961) was a Scottish sculptor. Born in Glasgow, he became an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1921, and a Royal Academician in 1928. Dick served as president of the Royal Society of British Sculptors from 1933 to 1938. He was knighted by King George V in 1935. He was Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland to King George VI from 1938 until his death.

Dick was renowned during his lifetime as a sculptor of portrait statuary. The sculptures by Blackfriars Bridge (Unilever House) are his, as is the eagle on the Royal Air Force Monument on the Victoria Embankment. In Regent's Park is his "Boy with Frog" fountain (1936). He was also the sculptor of the imposing bronze statue of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in London's Grosvenor Square (facing the United States Embassy), the George V by the House of Lords and another in Jersey, the John Soane statue at the Bank of England, and the equestrian statue of Lady Godiva, which was unveiled on 22 October 1949 in Broadgate, Coventry, England, a £20,000 gift from Mr WH Bassett-Green, a Coventrian.cite book|title = Coventry: A Century of News| first =Alton |last = Douglas| publisher =Coventry Evening Telegraph| isbn= 0902464361 |month = February|year= 1991| page = p. 62 ]

His archives are held by the Tate Gallery and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral, London.

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* [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp01293&rNo=4&role=sit Photograph of Sir William, 1933]