Memorial to Field Marshall Sir Henry Wilson by Charles Leonard Hartwell (1873-1951). 1922-23 bronze portrait mounted on marble tablet. Signed on the bottom left-hand corner of the relief panel: “C.HARTWELL A.R.A.” (Ward-Jackson). The marble inscription reads, “To the Memory of Field Marshall Sir Henry Wilson Bart G.C.B. D.S.O. M.P. whose death occurred on Thursday 22nd June 1922 within two hours of the unveiling the adjoining monument.” According to the entry in Wikipedia, Wilson, “was an Anglo-Irish field marshal and Irish Unionist politician. . . . After the formation of Northern Ireland, he became security advisor to the Northern Ireland Government. Wilson was assassinated by two Irish Republican Army volunteers in 1922.”
Photograph and caption by Robert Freidus. Formatting and perspective correction by George P. Landow. You may use these images without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one. [Click on the images for larger pictures.]
Ward-Jackson, Philip. Public Sculpture of the City of London. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2003.
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