Statue: Fenner Brockway statue
Erection date: 25/7/1985
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Fenner Brockway
President of Liberation
Born 1 November 1888
Died 28 April 11 1988
Erected by the GLC in honour of his untiring efforts for peace and racial equality.
25 July 1985
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Reinstated 1988 by Irene Chamberlain and others in memory of W.J. Chamberlain and all opponents of war, and also of Joan Hymans.
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Walters
The statue, by Ian Walters and unveiled (very appropriately) by Michael Foot, MP in 1985, is very characterful, with the hitched up jacket shoulder and clutched pile of books. Brockway was present at the unveiling and we know of only a handful of statues in London unveiled while the subject was still alive (as of 2008, at least), the others being:
Viscount Nuffield at Guy's Hospital
Duke of Wellington at the Royal Exchange
William Gladstone in Bow Road
Churchill in Woodford Green
George Peabody at the Royal Exchange.
Site: Fenner Brockway statue (1 memorial)
WC1, Red Lion Square
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