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Thomas Attwood

Halesowen, Shropshire 1783 -Malvern, Worcestershire 1856
British banker, economist, political campaigner and Member of Parliament; the leading figure of the underconsumptionist Birmingham School of economists, and, as the founder of the Birmingham Political Union, the leading figure in the public campaign for the Great Reform Act of 1832.
(Wikipedia)

Sioban Coppinger & Fiona Peever
1993

Description

The bronze statue sits, having left his plinth, and scattered his bronze pages, on the steps.

Inscription(s)

PROSPERITY

THE VOTE

REFORM

and on the scattered bronze pages:


Votes for All	Full Employ- ment	Free Trade

Information Sign

THOMAS ATTWOOD 1783-1856
Birmingham's first Member of Parliamen
BY SIOBAN COPPINGER & FIONA PEEVER 1993
Presented to the City by Mrs. Priscilla Mitchell

'Possunt Quia Posse Videntur'

Sculptors

Sioban Coppinger (1955), British sculptress (Website).
Fiona Peever

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, Chamberlain Square.
Bob Speel, Birmingham - Modern figure sculpture: Victoria Square and Corporation Street.

Location (N 52°28'47" - W 1°54'14")

Item Code: gbwm052; Photograph: 24 June 2014
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