Sir Alfred Gilbert (1854–1934) by Ralph W. Robinson, 1889 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Richard Dorment
Gilbert, Sir Alfred (1854–1934), sculptor and goldsmith, was born on 12 August 1854 at 13 Berners Street, off Oxford Street in London, the eldest of the four children of Alfred Gilbert (1828–1902), an organist and editor of eighteenth-century musical texts, and his wife, ...