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Alfred Lewis Jones MemorialLiverpool, Research, and The Fruits of IndustryAlfred Lewis Jones Carmarthen 1845 - Liverpool 1909 Welsh businessman and ship-owner. (Wikipedia) |
sir George Frampton
1913 |
Memorial with at the top the personification of the City of Liverpool, wearing a crown and tabard decorated with the city's heraldic symbols. She is holding a globe on which is balanced a small ship. Below, on either side, are two other female figures representing Research and the Fruits of Industry, in view of Sir Alfred Lewis Jones' introduction of the banana to Britain.
At the front of the pedestal is plaque with a bust portrait, with the years 1845-1909, and on the back a relief of a medieaval sailing ship with below the name Enterprise.
research with a book and very precisely modelled microscope |
fruits of industry with a basket of fruit and a caduceus (Hermes' staff) |
in memory of SIR ALFRED LEWIS JONES a shipowner strenuous in business he en- larged the commerce of this country by his mercantine 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 |
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