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Kensington Gore 1 (SW7)
(Royal Geographical Society)

Ernest Shackleton and David Livingstone

Charles Sargeant Jagger & Thomas Bayliss Huxley-Jones
1932 and 1954

Description

Two bronze statues in niches in the façade of the Royal Geographical Society Building:

(Exhibition Road side) SHACKLETON - Ernest Shackleton (Kilkea near Athy, Co. Kildare, Ireland 1874 - Grytviken, South Georgia 1922), polar explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic (Wikipedia).
Statue by Charles Sargeant Jagger, 1932.
(Kensington Gore side) LIVINGSTONE - David Livingstone (Blantyre, South Lanarkshire 1813 - Chief Chitambo's Village, in present day Zambia 1873), Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa. (Wikipedia).
Statue by Thomas Bayliss Huxley-Jones, 1953.

London - Ernest Shackleton and David Livingstone
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Sculptors

Thomas Bayliss Huxley-Jones (1908-1968), British sculptor (Facebook – Mapping of Sculpture).
Charles Sargeant Jagger (Kilnhurst, near Rotherham, Yorkshire, 1885 -1934), British sculptor who, following active service in the First World War, sculpted many works on the theme of war (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, List of public art in Kensington and Chelsea.
John Blackwood, London's Immortals: The Complete Outdoor Commemorative Statues (London: Savoy, 1989), p. 304-305.
Andrew Kershman, London's Monuments (London: Metro Publ., 2013), p. 306-307.
Peter Matthews, London's Statues and Monuments (Botley: Shire, 2012), p. 151-152.

Location (N 51°30'5" - W 0°10'29")