Monument

Queen Victoria visits The City

Erection date: /12/1902

Inscription

{On the plaque below the bust:}
This tablet was erected by the Corporation of London in the mayoralty of Sir Marcus Samuel to mark the western boundary of the City and to commemorate the occasion of the last visit of Her Majesty Queen Victoria who was here presented with the city sword on the 7th Day of March 1900 by the Lord Mayor Sir Alfred James Newton, Bart.
Carried out under the direction of the County Lands Committee. Claudius George Algar, Esq., Chairman, December 1902.

{The "7th" quoted above is badly damaged and may be incorrect.}

Victoria died on 22 January 1901, less than a year after this last visit to the City.

Site: City of London boundary and Queen Victoria (2 memorials)

EC4, Victoria Embankment

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Queen Victoria visits The City

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Queen Victoria's last visit to the City of London

On her visit she was presented with the city sword by the Lord Mayor. We have...

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Claudius George Algar

Claudius George Algar was the elder child of Walter Algar (b.1830) and Mary A...

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Sir Alfred James Newton

Lord Mayor of the City of London 1899-1900 and in that role instrumental in t...

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Queen Victoria

Reigned: 1837-1901, 64 years. Born Kensington Palace. Daughter of Edward, Duk...

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Queen Victoria visits The City

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Corporation of the City of London

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Sir Marcus Samuel

Mayor of the City of London in 1900.

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