William Birnie Rhind

William Birnie Rhind RSA (1853–1933) was a Scottish sculptor. Rhind was born in Edinburgh as the eldest son of sculptor John Rhind (1828–1892), and the elder brother of J. Massey Rhind. The two brothers set up a studio in Glasgow in 1885, then Birnie moved to Edinburgh, and his brother went to Paris, then permanently to America in 1889, despite the warnings of their father.

His name is particularly connected to several dozen fine sculptural war memorials in the Edinburgh and Lothian area. The best of these is probably the 1919 bronze figure of a fallen officer, telling his men to "carry on", which is located at Fettes College, a private school in Edinburgh.

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