Malcolm Elias

Malcolm Elias (1 January, 1759 - 3 November, 1825) was a prominent Synian sculptor. He is best known for being the author of the Lion Gate.

Childhood and Career
Malcolm Elias was born to a poor Irish peasant family in modern Cura Cura Parish, Patri. He had elder step-sister named Alice (b. 1755) and four younger siblings: James (b. 1761), Charles (b. 1763), Angelina (b. 1766) and David (b. 1771). At the age of 14 he went to the local congregation school. After he graduated the school with excellent success he was sent to the Pearls Arts Institute. The cost was too high for his family to afford his studies but with financial help of his friends and David McCartney he was able to study at the prestige school.

Soon after he had completed his studies in 1782 he was asked to become on of the co-architects of the Clarke Manor. After that he cooperated with the House Clarke a number of times including when he designed the Clarke Manor Park in 1793. Due to the fact that most of his actions were centered around County Clarke he settled in Glendell. Between 1793 he participated in a number of projects all over Synia. This was the "golden age" of his activity.

After he recovered from the depression which was caused by his wife's, Meredith Elias, death he resumed his sculptor career. His most notable work of this time was the Lion Gate.

Personal Life
Malcolm Elias was married twice. He married his first wife, Meredith Elias, in 1795. The couple had one daughter - Nicole Elias who was born in 1799. Meredith died soon after the birth of Nicole due to childbirth fever. Many people were worried about the future of Nicole due to Malcolm falling in depression. Meredith's sister then adopted Nicole. Though he later recovered but he never saw his daughter again. He met his second wife - Edith Elias - in 1804. They married in 3 February, 1805 and their first and only child, Edward Elias who then became a poet and writer was born in the summer of the same year.

In 1823 when the both statues of the Lion Gate were complete Edward Elthon wasn't content with the results and therefore refused to pay him for his work which led him to poverty. In the same year he got sick with tuberculosis due to poverty and a year later his wife left him alone in the Glendell Beggar shelter where he died a year later. It is said that none of Malcolm's relatives arrived to his funeral.

Legacy
Malcolm Elias left behind himself an enormous legacy of invaluable artwork including Clarke Manor, Clarke Manor Park, Lion Gate and others.

In the beginning he was buried in the Glendell Protestant Cemetery. Only very few people knew where he was buried. In 1874 he was reburied to Malcolm Elias Monument in Glendell.