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James Watt

Greenock, Renfrewshire 1736 - Handsworth, Birmingham 1819
Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world
(Wikipedia)

Henry C. Fehr
Singer / Morris Singer / William Morris (London)
1903

Description

Statue of James Watt is a pair of compasses and a scroll in his hands. Watt had no specific connection to Leeds, he was a famous engineer and typified the technological change which had made Leeds into a city.

Inscription(s)

james
WATT
1736-1819

Under the statue is the text the gift of
richard wainwright 1898
erected 1903

Signature

H.C. Fehr
j.w. singer & sons l^td founders

The statues of James Watt and John Harrison and Walter Cook and Joseph Priestley in front of the General Post Office

Sculptor

Henry Charles Fehr FRBS (Forest Hill, London, 1867 - London 1940), English sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, City Square, Leeds.
Leeds-List, The Leeds Welcome Art Trail.
Bob Speel, Sculpture in Leeds City Square.
Leeds Mercury - Wednesday 16 September 1903 (British Newspaper Archive).
The Graphic - Saturday 19 September 1903 (British Newspaper Archive).

Locatie (N 53°47'47" - W 1°32'53") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: gbyh103; Photograph: 28 July 2019
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