Erection date: 1867
{On base of monument:}
Colin Campbell, Field Marshal Lord Clyde, born 1792, died
This is a rather grand memorial: the statue with Campbell resting his telescope on a palm-tree stump, being atop a fat pink marble pillar, at the base of which sits a life size allegorical woman, Britannia, lounging on a reclining lion. Glasgow has a copy of the statue, without all the add-ons.
SW1, Waterloo Place
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Colin Campbell
Field Marshal. Born Glasgow as Colin Macliver but his maternal uncle financed...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Colin Campbell
Born Turin. Lived in France most of his life but escaped to London in 1848. B...
On this site there used to be a sister hotel to Hotel Russell, also designed by Charles Fitzroy Doll and erected in 1898. It was demolish...
Yet anonther lazy London statue - see Peabody for our log of all the seated statues that we've found. The sculpture is by Watts, with Bo...
In Exhibition Road façade, on left of picture. This bronze statue stands in a niche although it was intended to be on a plinth.
Unusually the model for this statue is known: Webber. Our thanks to his great grandson, Simon North, for letting us know.
This B&W photo is from London Picture Archive where it is captioned: "Trinity Almshouses, statue of Captain Richard Maples, removed f...
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