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Edith Elizabeth Jukes
Edith Elizabeth Jukes FRBS, known as Beth, was a British Sculptor and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors. She became a member of the Royal Society in 1948

Early Life
Born in 1910 in Shillong India, where her father, Andrew Monro Jukes, was in the Indian Medical Service. She returned to England in 1915. Beth attended Norland Place School in Kensington.

Career
Beth studied at the Royal College of Art from 1928-1932 and was taught by Richard Garbe, Henry Moore and Herbert Palliser. She was a portrait sculptor and worked in clay, wood and stone, and regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy. She taught at Sir John School of Art, City of London Polytechnic from 1946-1975. She continued to sculpt well into her seventies

During World War II she helped with evacuee boys in Scotland and also trained as a nurse at St Bartholomews Hospital in London, qualifying as a State Registered Nurse in 1945.

She died in 2006

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