Memorial details

Memorial type
Sculptured / Cast group
District
City Of London
Town
City of London
County
Greater London
Country
England
Commemoration
Non-Combat Deaths, Colonial India
Maker
JOHN CHARLES FELIX ROSSI RA (Sculptor)
Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
60905

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Current location

St Paul's Cathedral
St Paul's Churchyard
City of London
City Of London
Greater London
EC4M 8AD
England

OS Grid Ref: TQ 32035 81148
Denomination: Church of England

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Description
Marble free-standing monument with a life-size statue of a man on a tall circular fluted column, three allegorical figures below. The statue represents a man with rolled hair, wearing a garter robes and long cloak and holding a scroll in his right hand. Below left is a seated woman (Britannia) with plumed helmet and spear, to the centre right a standing semi-naked native woman her hands clasped together gathering up her robe; to the far right is a seated powerfully-built bearded man, his hair coiled up on top of his head, holding a wreath, a figurine of an Indian god is fixed to a pot beside him. The whole stands on a shaped podium bearing the memorial inscription above a rectangular base.
Inscription
TO THE MEMORY OF / CHARLES MARQUIS CORNWALLIS, / GOVERNOR GENERAL OF BENGAL, / WHO DIED 5TH.OCTOBER 1805, AGED 66 AT GHAZEEPORE IN THE PROVINCE OF BENARES, / IN HIS PROGRESS TO ASSUME THE COMMAND OF THE ARMY IN THE FIELD. / THIS MONUMENT / IS ERECTED AT THE PUBLIC EXPENCE / IN TESTIMONY OF HIS HIGH AND DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC CHARACTER, / HIS LONG AND EMINENT SERVICES BOTH AS A SOLDIER AND A STATESMAN, / AND THE UNWEARIED ZEAL WITH WHICH HIS EXERTIONS WERE EMPLOYED / IN THE LAST MOMENT OF HIS LIFE / TO PROMOTE THE INTEREST AND HONOR OF HIS COUNTRY.
Inscription legible?
yes
Names on memorial
Cornwallis, Charles
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Commemorations
  • Non-Combat Deaths
    Total names on memorial: 1
    Served and returned: Undefined
    Died: 1
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: surname,year died,place of death,forename,manner of death,age of death,occupation,additional
    Order of information: Undefined
  • Colonial India
    Total names on memorial: 1
    Served and returned: Undefined
    Died: 1
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: surname,year died,place of death,forename,manner of death,age of death,occupation,additional
    Order of information: Undefined
Components
  • Memorial
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Marble
Listing information
Condition
Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
Reference
  • ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL by BURMAN, PETER p 163 Source: Image Library NIWM
  • St Paul's Cathedral Inventory Inv no.2490

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