Sydney March [also known, incorrectly, as Sidney March] was born in Stoneferry, Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England in 1876. After serving an apprenticeship as a monumental sculptor, in c.1900 he moved with his family to London, where he studied at the Royal Academy Schools. In 1900 March was awarded a Gold Medal in the National Competition. By 1904 March had embarked on a career as a studio and was living at "Goddendene", a large house in Farnborough, Kent, where he and two of his younger siblings, Elsie March (1883-1974) and Vernon March (1891-1920), who were also sculptors, had studios. Notable among March's commissions were a marble bust of King Edward VII for Windsor Castle (1901); an equestrian statue of Lord Kitchener in Calcutta [now Kolcuta] (1914); and the United Empire Loyalist Monument in Hamilton, Ontario (1929).