Erection date: 1928
{On the book held by the boy:}
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. . . .
{on the base:}
Margaret Wrightson, Sc.
The quotation is from Lamb's essay on the old benchers of the Inner Temple.
A 1775 statue was first erected here in 1928 but it was stolen in 1970. The following year this fibreglass copy was erected. It looks to us like a very modern version of a 1775 statue.
EC4, Inner Temple Gardens
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Statue of young boy
Born at 2 Crown Office Row, Inner Temple. Studied at Christ's Hospital where ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Statue of young boy
On a genealogical website we found "Margaret Wrightson born 1877, died 1976. ...
Unusually the model for this statue is known: Webber. Our thanks to his great grandson, Simon North, for letting us know.
Londonist brought this engaging multiple memorial to our attention. Information about visiting Fulham Palace. Bishop Porteus looks out c...
The statue was first erected in front of the Royal Exchange, about where Peabody now is. Spitalfields Life have a photo of it there c.191...
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