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WILLIAM HAMO, an English sculptor; born in London, March 9, 1850; studied at the Royal Academy schools. "Artemis" (1880) was his first success; others were: "Teucer" (1881) "The Mower" (1884) and the portrait statues of General Gordon in Trafalgar Square (1885); and of John Bright at Rochdale (1892); Queen Victoria in the Royal Exchange; and a bust of Coleridge for Westminster Abbey (1885); a statue of Gladstone, etc. He was made a member of the Royal Academy in 1888. Medal of Honor, Paris , 1900. a designer and builder of torpedo boats and there constructed several such vessels for the British navy. He also invented a turbine -engine for low-draft vessels.