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Statue of James Outram
The statue in 2015
Artist	Matthew Noble
Year	1871; 154 years ago (1871)
Type	Sculpture
Medium	Bronze
Location	London, WC2 United Kingdom
Coordinates	51°30′23″N 0°07′23″W / 51.50630°N 0.12309°W / 51.50630; -0.12309

The statue of James Outram, a work by Matthew Noble, stands in Whitehall Gardens in London, south of Hungerford Bridge. It is a Grade II listed structure.

Unusually, the plan to erect the statue began in Outram's own lifetime, at a public meeting held in Willis's Rooms, London, on 5 March 1861. The general had recently returned to Britain from India, the stage on which his military career had been played out, due to poor health. It was decided to erect an equestrian monument in Calcutta, with J. H. Foley as the sculptor, and a standing design by Matthew Noble in London, "near of his illustrious comrade, Sir Henry Havelock", on Trafalgar Square. Permission for this site was refused by the First Commissioner of Works, who subsequently offered a site in the yet-to-be-created Embankment Gardens. The statue was unveiled by Lord Halifax, a former Secretary of State for India, on 17 August 1871.

The bronze statue rests on a granite pedestal.

References

1. "London: By the river of memory". The Telegraph. 8 November 2003. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
2. Ward-Jackson, Philip (2011), Public Sculpture of Historic Westminster: Volume 1, Public Sculpture of Britain, vol. 14, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, pp. 308–10
3. Thornbury, George Walter; Walford, Edward (1880). Old and new London: a narrative of its history, its people and its places. p. 328. Retrieved 31 May 2015.

External links

• [REDACTED] Media related to Statue of James Outram, Victoria Embankment Gardens at Wikimedia Commons
• Statue of Sir James Outram, Westminster at British Listed Buildings
• General Sir James Outram statue, Victoria Embankment Gardens, Westminster, London at Europeana
• Statue: General Sir James Outram at London Remembers
• Sir James Outram – Whitehall Gardens, London, UK at Waymarking

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