Erection date: 1928
{On the book held by the boy:}
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. . . .
{on the base:}
Margaret Wrightson, Sc.
The quotation is from Lamb's essay on the old benchers of the Inner Temple.
A 1775 statue was first erected here in 1928 but it was stolen in 1970. The following year this fibreglass copy was erected. It looks to us like a very modern version of a 1775 statue.
EC4, Inner Temple Gardens
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Statue of young boy
Born at 2 Crown Office Row, Inner Temple. Studied at Christ's Hospital where ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Statue of young boy
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