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Jacqueline Cockburn - lost sculpture - plinth

Erection date: 1925

Inscription

This garden was replanted by the Chelsea Borough Council and many fellow workers and friends of Jacqueline Theodora Cockburn, 1894 – 1948. This sculpture stands in her memory & honour.

The PMSA page for this memorial informs that the 1925 bronze statue was already missing in October 1999 and that the sculptor was P. Lindsey Clark. His Widegate sculptural reliefs are a delight so we are very sorry not to be able to see this 'Child with Cat' - we could not even find an image.

2017: A correspondent, John Reed, wrote with a possible identification for this sculpture, sold in March 2009  by Chorley’s auctioneers in Gloucester. Described as "A small bronze of a kneeling child, Michael Clark (his son) holding a teddy bear.." (though the animal looks more like a cat to us). This seemed likely to be a version of the sculpture on this plinth, but then...

2023: the Lindsey-Clark family sent image of a different sculpture, still a small boy playing with an animal, and this one we are certain is correct.

Site: Jacqueline Cockburn - missing sculpture (2 memorials)

SW3, Chelsea embankment gardens

This sad empty plinth was brought to our attention by Stephen Cleverley. We were delighted to be able, eventually, to read all of the inscription and to realise that we had already put Jacqueline Cockburn on London Remembers - a block of flats on the Tachbrook Estate was named for her.

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
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Jacqueline Theodora Cockburn

Born Jacqueline Theodora Trotter, daughter of Henry Trotter and sister to Ang...

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This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
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Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

The borough was formed in 1965 by the merging of the separate former boroughs...

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Philip Lindsey-Clark

Sculptor. Born Brixton, son of the sculptor Robert Lindsey-Clark. He studied ...

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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
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Jacqueline Cockburn - lost sculpture

Jacqueline Cockburn - lost sculpture

2023: Joe and Suzanne Lindsey-Clark have access to Philip Lindsey-Clark's rec...

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