3-053-417 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Statue of Dr. S. T. Chadwick, at Bolton, by C. B. Birch, 1873. 'Dr. S. T. Chadwick, M.D., long a medical practitioner there, has conferred great benefits on the poorer classes by his efforts and gifts to establish charitable institutions...Towards the Orphanage £7000, and afterwards £5000, were handed over by Dr. and Mrs. Chadwick, in addition to the rents of the model buildings; which were required to be devoted to the maintaining, clothing, and educating orphan children belonging to the Bolton Poor- Law Union...In gratitude for these benefactions the people of Bolton have erected a statue of Dr. Chadwick during his lifetime...The statue is in bronze, and is the work of Mr. C. B. Birch, of London. It is 10 ft. 1 in. high, and stands on a pedestal of 12 ft., in the centre of which is a bas relief design in bronze, representing Mrs. Chadwick directing some poor children to the Orphanage. Speeches were delivered, a peal of bells in Trinity Church (an old gift of the doctor's) was rung in his honour, and a luncheon was afterwards given in the new Townhall. The board of guardians, who were indebted to Dr. Chadwick for their workhouse organ, also had a luncheon in celebration of the occasion'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.