P. 395 of Dictionary of British Sculptors 1661-1851 by Rupert Gunnis:
Thomas Thurlow, of Saxmundham, b. 1813, d. 1899
He was the son of a mason named John Thurlow (1785-1850) and was born at Saxmundham in
Suffolk, a county in which he spent all his life and where most of his work is to be
found. In 1847 he made a bust of the poet Crabbe for Aldeburgh Church, and in 1873
executed the redodos for his own parish church of
Saxmundham. Thurlow's largest work, in Kelsale Church, is the statue of Samuel Clouting,
1852, which, with its beaky nose and almost military type of cloak, bears a curious
resemblance to the Duke
of Wellington. Other monuments and tablets by him in Suffolk include those of Sir Charles
Blois, 1840, at Yoxford; Robert King, 1842 (with a medallion portrait), at Witnesham;
William Shuldham, 1850, at Marlesford; Sir Thomas Gooch, 1851 (with a relief of
"Faith, Hope and Charity"), at Benacre; Susanna Mayhew, 1853, and John Crampin,
1869, both of Saxmundham; and Richard Garrett, 1866 (with a bust), at Leiston. Thurlow
exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1846-1872, and at the British Institution, 1841. He died
in 1899 and is buried in Saxmundham churchyard
Two Saxmundham homes built by Thomas,
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