Frank Mowbray Taubman was born on 13 June 1868 in Holloway, Middlesex (now Greater London), the second of the four children of Robert Taubman (1840-1905) and Fanny Taubman née Mountain (1845-1932). His birth was registered in the 3rd quarter of 1868 in the Islington Registration District, Middlesex (now Greater London). His three siblings were: Gertrude Taubman (1867-1949); Fanny Eleanor Taubman (1870-1925) and Harry Allen Taubman (1874-1930).
On 13 April 1870 he was, together with his two sisters, baptised at St Mark's Church, Tollington Park, Middlesex (now Greater London), where in the baptismal register his family was shown as living at 55 Russell Road and that his father was a chemist. (Russell Road was later renamed and is now Berriman Road, London, N7).
In the 1871 census he is shown as aged 2 years and still residing at 55 Russell Road, Highbury, with his parents, his two sisters: Gertrude Taubman and Fanny Eleanor Taubman, a cousin Kate Pepper, aged 10 years, together with female general domestic servant and a child's nurse. His father was shown as a wholesale chemist's assistant who had been born in Ballaugh, Isle of Man and his mother had been born in Boston, Lincolnshire.
His brother, Henry Allen Taubman was baptised on 11 March 1875 and the baptismal register shows the family were now living at 7 Arthur Road, London, N7.
When the 1881 census was undertaken he was shown as aged 12 years and a scholar, still residing at 7 Arthur Road, with his parents and his three siblings who were also listed as scholars. His father was described as a chemist's assistant.
He is shown in the 1891 census as aged 22 years and chemist's assistant living at 124 Southampton Row, Bloomsbury, London, with his parents, his three siblings and a male boarder, together with a cook, a housemaid and a page. His father continued to be listed as a chemist's assistant.
He was described as aged 32 years and a sculptor in the 1901 census, living at 12 Eton Road, Hampstead, London, with his parents and his elder sister, together with a cook and a housemaid. His father was shown as a manufacturing chemist.
His widowed mother completed the 1911 census return form and described him as aged 42 years a sculptor, painter and poet (late chemist's assistant), living with her in a ten roomed property at 14 Provost Road, South Hampstead, London, together with his three siblings: Gertrude Taubman - a secretary; Fanny Eleanor Taubman - a superintendent of a children's recreational school and Harry Allen Taubman - an advertising representative, together with a female domestic servant.
Electoral registers continued to show him and his family at 14 Provost Road until 1933, but from 1934 he and his sister Gertrude Taubman were listed a Brookside, Kemerton, Worcestershire. In the 1939 England and Wales Register he is shown as an artist living in Brookside, Evesham, Worcestershire, with his elder sister, Gertrude Taubman.
His death, aged 78 years, was registered in the 4th quarter of 1946 in the Evesham Registration District, Worcestershire. Probate records confirm his address had been Brookside, Kemerton and that he died on 9 December 1946. Administration of his estate was granted on 5 February 1947 to his sister and his effects totalled £193-18s-8d.
In addition to sculpting the Sir Sydney Hedley Waterlow statue in Waterlow Park, London, N6, he also carved the bust of A. W. Moore, for the House of Keys on the Isle of Man.
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
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