Last updated: January 12, 2024
Place
Edmund Burke Statue
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Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits, Public Transit
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) was born in Ireland and was a member of the British parliament between 1765 and 1780. He is best remembered as a staunch advocate of conservatism. In the run up to the American Revolution, he was a proponent of preventing violence in the American colonies, sympathizing with the colonists' grievances and opposing the authoritarianism King George III showed.
Inscriptions
Pedestal front
BURKE
1729-1797
"MAGNANIMITY IN POLITICS IS NOT SELDOM THE TRUEST WISDOM"
Pedestal back
THIS STATUE
A COPY OF THE WORK OF HARVARD THOMAS IN THE CITY OF BRISTOL ENGLAND WAS PRESENTED THROUGH THE SULGRAVE INSTITUTION TO THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA BY SIR CHARLES CHEERS WAKEFIELD BARONET FORMERLY LORD MAYOR OF LONDON
ERECTED A.D. 1922
Artist signature, right side of sculpture base
I. HAVARD THOMAS FECIT MDCCCXCIV
CAST Ã, CIRE PERDUE H.H. MARTYN & Co. Ltd.
Cheltenham1922