David
Bernard McFall - CHRONOLOGY & LIST OF SOME PUBLIC WORKS
1919 born 21st
December 7.20pm at 8 Craig Road Glasgow in the Parish of Cathcart. Family: father David McFall, Postman, born
19/2/1891 died 15/8/1975; mother Elizabeth née McEvoy born 17/11/1892 died 19/2/1978; Parents
married 27th July 1918 at Hutchesontown, Glasgow; brother: Donald, sister:
Betty
1931-1934 Studied at Birmingham Junior School of Arts & Crafts
1935-1939
Studied at Birmingham College of Art under Charles Thomas
1939 Assistant to
Eric Gill
1940-1941 Studied at Royal College of Art (Royal Scholarship worth £135
- one of two awarded that year to Birmingham College of Arts & Crafts
students)
1941-1945 Studied at City & Guilds of London Art School,
Kennington. (When the Royal College of Art was evacuated to the Lake District in
the war McFall joined the City & Guilds Kennington)
1941-1945 Working
for Bucks War Agricultural Committee
1943 The Bull Calf. Portland Stone, first work
accepted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and purchased by the R.A.
under the Chantrey Bequest
1944-1956 worked with Sir Jacob Epstein.
1949 Hugo Manning, poet. Bronze head
1950
Unicorns, Finials & Zodiac for the Bristol New Council House
1951 Boy & Foal, limestone, for The Festival
of Britain
1953 Hugh J Taggart, F.R.C.S.
Bronze bust
1954 Sir Stafford Cripps
inscription cut in stone for Jacob Epstein. 
1954 Alderman Frank Sheppard. Bronze bust, for the
Bristol New Council House
1955 Elected
Associate Member of the Royal Academy of Arts, London
1955 Pocohontas. Bronze statue for Cassells, Red
Lion Square
1955 The late Harley Granville-Barker. Bronze bust for British
Drama League
1956-1975 Master of Sculpture at City and Guilds of London Art
School
1956 Inscription for Epstein's statue of Jan Smuts unveiled Parliament
Square
1956 Work on Epstein's TUC Memorial
1956 Margaret Dunlop Epstein.
Headstone Highgate Cemetery
1956 Lord Methuen. Bronze bust
1956 Ralph Vaughan
Williams. Bronze bust (Royal Festival Hall & National Portrait Gallery)
1957
Madame Oda Slobodskaya. Bronze head
1957 Sir Francis Glyn K.C.M.G. Bronze bust
1957
Statues of St Bride & St Paul, St Bride's Church, Fleet Street London
1958
The Air Ministry, Whitehall. Stone sculpture
1958 Sir Winston Churchill. Bronze
head ("The Rocquebrune Head")
1958 Sir Winston Churchill. Bronze bust
("The Chartwell Bust") Royal Academy Diploma work
1959 Sir Winston Churchill. Bronze statue
(Woodford Green)
1959 W. Godfrey Allen Surveyor of St Paul's Cathedral. Bronze
bust (crypt of St Paul's Cathedral)
1961 Ralph Vaughan Williams. Bronze relief
for Leith Hill Festival Memorial Committee
1962 Lord Balfour. Limestone statue
(Palace of Westminster)
1963 Elected Royal Academician
1964 Dr Bertrand
Hallward, Vice Chancellor Nottingham University. Bronze bust
1964 Lord Brabazon
of Tara (Royal Institution). Bronze bust
1964 Sir Allen Clark, Plessey Company.
Bronze relief
1964 Rt. Hon. Earl Attlee (National Portrait Gallery & Imperial
War Museum) Bronze head
1965 Memorial to Sir Albert Richardson PPRA (Crypt of
St Paul's Cathedral)
1966 Crucifixion. Portland stone statue, Church of Our
Lady of Lourdes, Thames Ditton
1966 Lord Ridley (University, Newcastle upon
Tyne). Posthumous bronze bust
1966 Sir Steuart Wilson, Overseas Music Director
BBC, Arts Council 1942-45. Bronze
bust
1968 First marriage to Bernadette Hemmer 6/4/68 (parted
27/4/68)
1968 Shying Horse for London Transport Board New Victoria Line (The Blackhorse Station)
1968
The Golden Gazelle, Abu Dhabi, Trucial States
1968 Churchill statuette for the
Dame Felicity Peake Prize (Imperial War Museum)
1969 Three stone friezes on William
Whitfield's extension to Institute of Chartered Accountants building, London
1969-71
member Royal Mint Advisory Committee
1970 Dr. Charles Baker, Late Warden Guys
Hospital Medical School. Bronze bust
1971 Sir Thomas Holmes Sellors, President,
Royal College of Surgeons. Bronze bust
1972 Awarded the Jean Masson Davidson
International Award for Distinction in Portrait Sculpture by the Society
of Portrait Sculptors
1972 Portland stone group of Oedipus &
Jocasta (West Norwood Library)
1972 Marriage to Alexandra Dane
1973 Memorial to Sir
Gerald Kelly (St Paul's Cathedral Crypt)
1973 The late Hugh Stenhouse Esq.,
Glasgow. Bronze bust
1973 Freedom medals for the Royal Mint
1973 daughter Laura-Jo
Sabine McFall born
1974 Sir George Godber for Royal College of Physicians.
Bronze bust
1974 Prof.Sir George Grenfell Baines for Building Design
Partnership. Bronze bust
1975 HRH The Prince of Wales. Bronze bust
1975 Josiah
Wedgwood, Barlaston, Stoke on Trent. Posthumous bust
1976 Memorial to Lord
Fraser of Lonsdale (Westminster Abbey)
1977 HRH The Prince of Wales in the
Uniform of the Welsh Guards
1980 The Calcutta Medallion, Mother Theresa
1981
son Leo Morkel McFall born
1983 no Royal Academy exhibit (due to illness)
1985 left eye removed 4/4/85
1987 The
late Hugh Jolly. Bronze head
1988 Son of
Man. Bronze Statue of Christ at Canterbury Cathedral
1988 Sunday 18th September died at Charing Cross Hospital London