Robert Bentley Todd Statue - King's Hospital, Camberwell, London, UK
N 51° 28.105 W 000° 05.650
30U E 701821 N 5705921
This statue, to Robert Bentley Todd, was moved from the old King's College Hospital in the City to its current location.
Waymark Code: WMGD0E
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/16/2013
Views: 2
The Public Sculpture and Monuments
Association website [visit
link] tells us:
"Todd, a standing bare-headed figure in robes, points with
his right hand to a document held in his left hand. At his feet are some books.
The marble base is raised on a cylindrical pedestal and square step, all of the
same material. The statue was originally erected in the Great Hall of the old
King's College Hospital, near Lincoln's Inn Fields. First erected 1863, inside
the Hospital's Great Hall, in the Strand. Moved here with the Hospital 1913.
Of course Noble did not select his stone for life in the open
air but the statue is terribly worn. Todd (1809-60) was one of the founders of
the hospital in 1839.
In incised blackened letters in
recessed panel, on front of cylindrical pedestal: ROBERT BENTLEY TODD. F.R.C.P.
F.R.S. / 1809 - 1860."