Statues - Hither & Thither

Description

1. (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.
2. (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.

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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.

Tags

• Town: London
• County: London
• Subdivision: Greater London
• Country: Great Britain
• Explorer
• Huxley-Jones, Thomas Bayliss
• Jagger, Charles Sargeant
• Livingstone, David
• Shackleton, Ernest
• Statue

Location (N 51°30'5" - W 0°10'29")

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