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Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe

Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
Chapelizod, Co. Dublin, 1865 - London 1922
British journalist, newspaper and publishing magnate; owner of the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror
(Wikipedia)

Kathleen Scott
1930

London / Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe

Description

Bronze bust.

Inscription(s)

NORTHCLIFFE

MDCCCLIXV
MCMXXI

Annotation

The monument as a whole being to the design of Sir Edwin Lutyens.

Sculptor

Kathleen Scott, born Edith Agnes Kathleen Bruce (Carlton in Lindrick, Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire, 1878 - 1947), British sculptor, she married the Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Scott in 1908 and secondly with Edward Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet, in 1922 (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Andrew Kershman, London's Monuments (London: Metro Publ., 2013), p. 171.
Peter Matthews, London's Statues and Monuments (Botley: Shire, 2012), p. 68-69.
Bob Speel, London sculpture.

Locatie (N 51°30'50" - W 0°6'36") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

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