Edmund Thomas Wyatt Ware (29 September 1883 - 26 July 1960) was a British teacher and sculptor.
He was born in Plaistow in Essex in 1883, the son of Emma (1858-) and Edmund Labdon Ware (1852-1939), a police constable.[1] Ware studied at the Royal Academy Schools in London where he received a silver medal and a prize of £5.[2]
He first registered his mark as an independent silversmith in October 1903, and a figural silver spoon crafted by him in 1904 is in the Pear Tree Collection.[3] He taught goldsmithing and jewellery at the Central School of Art and Design (1905-1940). In the 1911 Census he was listed as 'Artist, Sculptor' and his place of employment as 52 Doughty Street in London. During World War I Ware served as a Private in the Royal Army Medical Corps, in the Royal Army Service Corps, and as a Sapper in the Royal Engineers.[4] [5] Ware was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1916 and acted as its vice-president between 1948 and 1953. He became a Fellow in 1943.[6] Among others, Ware exhibited his work at: the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society (1910);[7] the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (1913, 1914, 1934, 1935 and 1940), and at the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art Fifty-Third Annual Exhibition (1935).[8] In 1940 he took up sculpting as a profession. In 1947 he sculpted the replacement plaque on the front of the Gerrards Cross Memorial Building.
In 1914 in London he married Theodora Margaret Sothern Lancaster (1885-1977),[9] the older sister of the artist Lilian Lancaster (1886-1973). The engagement ring, designed and crafted by Ware in 1912, is displayed in the Jewellery Gallery of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.[10] Their daughter was the lithographer and enamelist Margaret Reade née Tennant Ware (1916-2006)[11] and their son was John Lancaster Ware (1920-2004).
In his later years Ware lived at 18 Gunter Grove in Chelsea in London. He died in 1960 and in his will left an estate valued at £8982 11s. 3d. to his widow.[12]