A statue of Richard Cobden in the main hall of the Wool Exchange
- Date:
- Aug 1988
- Location:
- The Wool Exchange, Market Street, Bradford
- Reference:
- BB89/01737
- Type:
- Photograph (Negative)
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Description
The Wool Exchange was completed in 1867, to an 1864 competition winning design by Lockwood and Mawson. The full-length marble statue of Richard Cobden by sculptor Timothy Butler was unveiled at the Wool Exchange in 1877. It stands on a stone base engraved with the words "Free Trade Peace Goodwill Among Nations", in a circle around Cobden's name. Cobden was the member of parliament for the West Riding of Yorkshire between 1847 and 1857, having previously served as MP for Stockport 1841-1847 and later for Rochdale 1859-1865. He was involved in free trade campaigns including the Anti-Corn Law League. The statue was a gift from the American George Henry Booth, a partner in Firth Booth & Co., Stuff Merchants of Bradford. Cobden is also commemorated in a portrait medallion in a spandrel of the ground floor arcade of the Wool Exchange.
Content
This is part of the Job: 88/01788 The Wool Exchange; within the Volume: BF062684 The Wool Exchange, Market Street, Bradford; within the Series: RCH01/084 Yorkshire Textile Mills Project; within the Collection: RCH01 Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME) Archive
Rights
© Crown Copyright. Historic England Archive
Keywords
Post Medieval Wool Exchange, Post Medieval Statue, Trade And Commerce
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