Background
He was born in Edinburgh, the second son of architect Sir Robert Lorimer.
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He was educated at Loretto School in Musselburgh, then at Magdalen College, Oxford University, but he left Oxford prematurely to study design and sculpture at Edinburgh College of Artist
Career
After graduating in 1934, he entered an apprenticeship with sculptor and stonemason Eric Gill. Lorimer was principally an architectural sculptor, and his profound religious beliefs had a lasting effect on his art and subject matter. Between 1950 and 1955 he also sculpted the artwork adorning the facade of the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh, for which he produced a series of tall, allegorical figures, depicting history, law, medicine, music, poetry, science and theology.
The architect of the library was Reginald Fairlie, with whom Lormier worked a great deal.
He was awarded an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1986 for services to architecture and conservation. Lorimer lived in Kellie Castle in Fife, and died in a nursing home in Street Andrews in 1993.
