Memorial: M6312

Statue in Pier Head, Liverpool, dedicated to Sir Alfred Lewis Jones d. 1909

Location

Pier Head, Liverpool, England

Transcript

'IN MEMORY OF / SIR ALFRED LEWIS JONES K.C.M.G. / A SHIPOWNER STRENUOUS IN BUSINESS HE EN- / LARGED THE COMMERCE OF HIS COUNTRY BY HIS / MERCANTILE ENTERPRISE AND AS FOUNDER OF / THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE MADE / SCIENCE TRIBUTARY TO CIVILIZATION IN WESTERN / AFRICA AND THE COLONIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE', 'UNVEILED BY THE RIGHT HON / THE EARL OF DERBY / 5TH JULY 1913', 'ERECTED BY HIS FELLOW CITIZENS.'

Details

Description: A tall pedestal surmounting a female personification of the city of Liverpool wearing a mural crown and holding in her left hand a ship on a globe. On the base bronze seated lefthand figure has the atributes of Mercury with a basket of fruit and flowers in her lap, inscribed: 'FRUITS OF INDUSTRY.' Right hand figure has a book and microscope, she in inscribed: 'RESEARCH'. There are reliefs on the front and rear, the front showing Jones in profile, the rear, a medieval ship inscribed: 'ENTERPRISE'.
Type: Statue
Materials: Bronze, granite
Date Erected: 1913
Artists: George Frampton, A.B. Burton

People

Jones, Alfred Lewis
Age: 64
Date of Death: 1909
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Shipowner
Organisation: Elder, Dempster & Co

Extra

Bibliography: Terry Cavanagh 'The Public Sculpture of Liverpool' (Liverpool, 1997) pp. 135-6.
Photographer: B. Tomlinson

JSON

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters