The sculptor Charles Pilkington Jackson set up his first studio in 1912 with the founder William McDonald. Commissions included collaborations with Sir Frank Mears and Sir Robert Lorimer. After the First World War, he set up on his own at 12 Church Lane, Edinburgh (now Gloucester Lane).
During the 1920s Pilkington Jackson principally worked on memorials, including the Elsie Inglis Memorial with Sir Frank Mears in 1922 and the Alloa War Memorial with Sir Robert Lorimer in 1925.
The work of Carl Milles was an important influence on Pilkington Jackson, who visited the Swedish sculptor in 1929. After the Second World War he continued to work, his career culminating in the monumental sculpture The Bruce at Bannockburn, cast in 1964.