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==Early years==
Alexander Carrick, the son of a [[blacksmith]], was born inon the 21st February 1882 in the small town of [[Musselburgh]], just east of [[Edinburgh]]. In 1897 he enrolled as a student at Edinburgh College of Art and was apprenticed as a [[stonemason]] working in the yard of one of the prominent monumental sculptors of the period, [[Birnie Rhind]]. He won the [[Queen's Prize]] allowing him to go to London to study for two years at the [[Royal College of Art|South Kensington College]] under the Belgian sculptor Professor [[Edouard Lanteri]]. He then returned to Edinburgh, spending a further two years working under another of the leading Scottish sculptors of the period, [[James Pittendreigh MacGillivray|Pittendrigh MacGillivray]].
 
In the years running up to [[World War I]] Carrick was to become a regular exhibitor at the RSA exhibitions, his exhibition works including 'A Boy Putting a Stone', 'A Girl Skipping', and 'Saint Cecilia'. He also established his reputation as a monumental artist working on prestigious construction projects such as the [[Usher Hall]] and the Scotsman Building, both in Edinburgh; restoration works at [[Eilean Donan Castle]] and [[St. Magnus' Cathedral]] in [[Kirkwall]]; and also carrying out extensive work in the unusual Saint Conan's Kirk at [[Loch Awe]]. Whilst at the Edinburgh College of Art, Carrick met his wife, Janet Ferguson MacGregor, who was studying painting there, and the couple were married in 1914. Their first child, Elizabeth, was born in 1915, (followed later by Anne, who herself became an artist).
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