3-074-641 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Memorial statue of Sir T. White at Coventry, 1883. 'A statue of Sir Thomas White, who was a London merchant, and Lord Mayor of London, in the reign of Queen Mary, has been erected in the town of Coventry by public subscription. He gave large sums of money to this town in its time of great need, also to the towns of Bristol, Warwick, Nottingham, and other places which shared in his bounty. The monument is erected at the angle of the Greyfriars Green. It is supported upon a pedestal of fine Cornish granite 10 feet in height, which bears on its summit the colossal marble figure of Sir Thomas White, 8 feet in height, in the grand costume of a Lord Mayor in the year 1558. The memorial was unveiled on Thursday of last week by the Mayor, Mr. A. S. Tomson, assisted by the Town Council, in the presence of a large assemblage of people. The sculptors are Messrs. W. and T. Wills, of Gower-street, London; the cost of the work is estimated at £800'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.