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Alfred Usher Soord
Artist

Alfred Soord was born in Sunderland, September 1868. He was the son of Thomas Soord and Jane Usher. He had two sisters and one brother. (Helen b.1859 d.1901; George b.1863; Olivia b.1863 d.1874)

He studied under Hubert Von Herkomer (1849-1914) at the School of art in Bushey, Hertfordshire from 1883.

He was baptized at the age of 22 in 1891.

A portrait of Herbert Maxwell that Soord painted in 1903 hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London.

He had several works exhibited at the Royal Academy.

-	Chrystian, Son of Alfred Soord (1907)

-	Portrait of Rider Haggard (1910)

-	Scott’s expedition to the Antarctic (1910)

-	Portrait of Charles Fry (1911)

His most famous work is “The Lost Sheep”. Twin works of the Crucifixion by this artist reside in the Chapel at Oxford House in Bethnal Green and St Bartholomew’s church, Brighton.

He died at Bushey in 1915 aged 47.