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South East England

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(Clarendon Building)

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

1609 - Rouen 1674
English statesman, historian, and chancellor of the University of Oxford, 1660-1667
(Wikipedia)

Francis Bird
1721

Oxford / Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

Description

Lead statue of Hyde in the robes of chancellor, it stands in a niche in the west façade of the building.

Inscription(s)

EDWARDVS COMES CLARENDONIÆ
Summus Anglice Summus Academiæ
Cancellarius

Annotation

The building was funded largely from the proceeds of the commercially successful History of the Great Rebellion by the 1st Earl of Clarendon.
The statue stood from 1721 until the 1940s in a niche on the south side of the building (now a window)

Sculptor

Francis Bird (London 1667 - London 1731), British sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Philip Opher, Oxford Sculpture (Heritage Tours Publications, 2009).
Oxford History, index.
Wikipedia, Clarendon Building.

Locatie (N 51°45'16" - W 1°15'17") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: gbse137; Photograph: 18 October 2015
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