Statue at St Olave’s, City of London depicting Sir Andrew Riccard d. 1672, Chairman of the East India Company

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St Olave's Church, Hart Street, City of London, England

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‘Sacred be the statue here raised by Gratitude & Respect / to eternise the Memory of Sir ANDREW RICCARD Knt. A Citizen & opulent Merchant of London. Whose active Piety inflexible / Integrity & extensive Abilities alike distinguished & exalted Him in the Opinion / of the Wise and Good. Adverse to his Wish, He was frequently chosen / Chairman, / of the Honourable East India Company and filled with equal Credit for / eighteen successive Years the same eminent station in the Turkey Company / Among many Instances of his Love to GOD and liberal Spirit towards Man, one as it / demands peculiar Praise, deserves to be distinctly recorded. He nobly left the / perpetual Advowson of this Parish, in Trust, to five of its senior inhabitants. / He died the 6th of Septr. In the Years of our LORD 1672 of his Age 68. / Manet post Funera Virtus .’ [Below] ‘En ANDREAM RICCARDVM Eq. Aur / Civem Londoniensem & mercatorem Splendissimum / Virum Pietatis in Deum Insignis / Probitatis Erga in Deum Insignatis / Probitatis Erga Homines Eximiae / Existimationis apud omnes summae / In negotiis maxime Publicis Agendis sedulitatis indeffessiae; / Societatis Indicae Praesidem, saepius Invitum; / Societatis vero vti vulgo dicitur Turcicae Per octodecim simil Annos Dictatorem Perpetuum / Ad illius itaq/ Memoriam Societati illi praescrtim Pergratam / Monumentam Hoc Ei Honorifice Extruendum / Impensis suis illa ipsa Curavit Societas .’ [Base} ‘Corpus ejas Superiori aedis parte / intra Cancellos / Ab Australi Latere mensae sacrae / Inscripto sub Marmore Depositum est / Ubi Monumentum Hoc / Propter loci Augustias statui non point / Obiit 6to Septembris / Anno Salutis 1672 Aetatis 68’

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