File:Bust JosephWatson 1stBaronManton LeedsInfirmary EntranceHall GreatGeorgeStreet.jpg
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English: Joseph Watson, 1st Baron Manton, dressed in peerage robes. Bronze half-length bas-relief portrait sculpture, 1931. In Leeds General Infirmary, Great George Street Entrance Hall. Inscribed below: IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH WATSON FIRST BARON MANTON A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF THE INFIRMARY FROM 1906 TO 1922 A WISE COUNSELLOR AND GENEROUS BENEFACTOR. Signed bottom left of Lord Manton's robe: "Allan G Wyon" (Allan Gairdner Wyon FRBS RMS (1882-1962). Unveiled Friday 11 December 1931 by his widow Claire, Lady Manton, accompanied by her sons Miles, Robert and Alastair. Attended by Mr H D Middleton, chairman of the board. A tribute speech was made by Mr Charles Lupton, a board member of the Infirmary. Lord Manton gave in total £56,500 to the Infirmary (Source: Yorkshire Post, 12 December 1931, p.14, which erroneously states by "W. Wyon", his famous relative the sculptor William Wyon, who died in 1851). In 1936 his widow gave a further £8,000 to establish an x-ray department named in honour of her late husband, the 1st Lord Manton. (Source: Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Thursday 17 December 1936) |
| Date | 24 July 2010 (according to Exif data) |
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