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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. i. MAY 20, wie.
STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE
BRITISH ISLES.
(See 10 S. xi., xii. ; 11 S. i.-xii., passim; 12 S. i. 65, 243.)
Pioneers and Philanthropists
(continued).
Elizabeth Fry.
London.—A marble statue of Mrs. Fry, placed at the top of the staircase, beneath the dome at the Old Bailey, was unveiled by the Countess of Dudley on May 21, 1914. The Lord Mayor of London, who was present, disclosed the fact that the donor was Miss Fletcher. The statue is the work of Mr. Alfred Drury, R.A., and represents the great prison reformer in simple Quaker dress and wearing a close-fitting bonnet. The ceremony of unveiling was performed, on the anniversary of Mrs. Fry's birth, by her great-niece, and many Bother of her family connexions were present. On the polished pedestal is inscribed:—
Elizabeth Fry
1780-1845,
followed by Browning's appropriate lines:
One who never turned her back,
But marched breast forward.
Never doubted clouds would break,
Never dreamed, though right were worsted,
Wrong would triumph.
Held, we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better;
Sleep to wake.
At the sides are bronze panels depicting in relief scenes of Mrs. Fry's prison work.
Barking, Essex. Elizabeth Fry is buried in the little graveyard contiguous to the Friends' Meeting-House. The only memorial is a small stone about 2 ft. high, which marks the resting-place of her husband and herself. It bears the following laconic inscription:—
Joseph Fry
died 1861,
aged 84.
Elizabeth, wife of
Joseph Fry,
died 1845,
aged 65.
(See 10 S. x. 150.)
Samuel Gurney.
Stratford, Essex. On Sept. 30, 1861, an obelisk, erected by subscription to the memory of Samuel Gurney, the banker- philanthropist, in the Broadway, was un- veiled by Mr. John Davis, J.P., of Cranbrook Park. It is constructed of grey granite, is 42 ft. high, and was designed by John Bell, and executed by the Cheesewring Granite Co.
Two sides of the base contain drinking-
fountains, the water flowing from groups of
lilies sculptured in white marble. On the
west side is inscribed as follows :
In remembrance of
Samuel Gurney who died the 6th of June 1856.
Erected by his
fellow parishioners and friends, 1861. ." When the ear heard him, then it blessed him."
Barking, Essex. Mr. Gurney was laid to rest in the Friends' Burial - Ground, his grave being next to that of his sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Fry. On the small headstone is inscribed :
Samuel Gurney,
died 1856,
aged 69.
Elizabeth Gurney, 1855, aged 70.
(See 10 S. x. 150.)
THOMAS GUY.
Southwark. On the south side of St. Thomas's Street stands Guy's Hospital. In the centre of the quadrangle opposite the main entrance gates is a statue of the munificent founder. It is of bronze, the work of Scheemakers, and represents Guy standing erect and clad in a livery gown. His head is bare, and in his right hand he holds a scroll. The statue was placed in position in 1734. On the front of the pedestal is inscribed :
Thomas Guy Sole Founder of this Hospital
in his Lifetime
A.D. MDCCXXII.
On the opposite side are Guy's arms On a chevron three fleurs-de-lis between three tigers' heads crowned. On the east and west sides are represented in relief Christ healing the impotent man, and the parable of the Good Samaritan.
Thomas Guy was interred in a vault in the chapel within the precincts of the hospital. Over his grave a marble statue, the work of the elder Bacon, was placed in 1779 at a cost of 1,0007. The figure of the founder is again shown clad in his livery gown. With one hand he essays to raise an emaciated figure from the ground, and with the other he points to a second figure being carried on a litter to the hospital which is shown in the background. On the pedestal is inscribed :
Underneath are deposited the remains of Thomas Gu^, Citizen of London, Member of Parliament, and the sole Founder of this Hospital in his lifetime. It is peculiar to this beneficent man to have persevered, during a long course of prosperity and industry, in pouring forth to the
