[Born in Worcestershire, 1770. Accidentally killed, 1830. Aged 60.]
A distinguished statesman, whose commercial views, early in the present
century, were considerably in advance of those of the political party to
which he was attached, and who strongly advocated the principle of the
measures carried at a later period by Sir Robert Peel. He served under
Pitt, and afterwards was President of the Board of Trade. He was
accidentally killed by a train, at the opening of the Manchester and
Liverpool Railway.
[For account of this statue, the original of which is at Liverpool,
see Handbook of Modern Sculpture, No. 29.]