Scott, George Gilbert

has biography | a une biographie: English Gothic Revival sculptor in the nineteenth century. Some of his notable colonial works include the India and Foreign Offices in Whitehall (today the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Offices), the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens, and several church memorials to individuals in India, including James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, Colonel Richard Baird Smith, and Lady Charlotte Canning.

Scott's mother, Euphemia Lynch (1785–1853), was the only daughter of Dr Thomas Lynch and Euphemia Gilbert of Antigua. The Gilberts were an established slave-owning and planter family on the island. Scott's father, the Reverend Thomas Scott (1780–1835), tried unsuccessfully to claim for slave compensation for the Gilbert's and Mercer's Creek estate in Antigua after abolition.
was born | est né: 13 July 1811
died in | est mort par: 27 March 1878
has nationality | a la nationalité: United Kingdom
has type | est de type: artist

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia; The Victorian Web; Art UK; Legacies of British Slavery - Rev. Thomas Scott; Nicholas Draper, ‘Possessing people: absentee slave-owners within British society’, in Legacies of British Slave-Ownership: Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain, ed. by Catherine Hall, Nicholas Draper, Keith McClelland, Katie Donington, and Rachel Lang (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 34-77

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