Patrick James Foley - Leeds, UK
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N 53° 47.974 W 001° 32.930
30U E 595576 N 5962198
This statue of Patrick James Foley stands at the top of the Pearl Assurance Building, the company that he founded.
Waymark Code: WMVCB9
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/31/2017
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"Patrick James Foley (1836–28 June 1914) was a successful financial entrepreneur and an Irish politician and Member of Parliament for Galway Connemara (UK Parliament constituency) from 1885 to 1895.
Son of Patrick Foley, of Sligo, he was born in Leeds and educated at Catholic schools in Prescot and Leeds. In 1864 he founded the Pearl Life Assurance Loan and Investment Company Ltd, renamed the Pearl Life Assurance Company in 1874, and was later President. He was also chairman of the Industrial Assurances Protection Association and president of the National Amalgamated Approved Society founded in 1912.
He was elected unopposed as M.P. for Galway Connemara in 1885 and 1886. When the Irish Parliamentary Party split in December 1890 over the leadership of Charles Stewart Parnell, Foley sided with the Anti-Parnellites and at the 1892 general election he was challenged by a Parnellite, J. H. Joyce. However, he retained the seat easily, by 2,637 votes to 598.
Foley was secretary of the Irish National League of Great Britain.
He married, in 1862, a daughter of John Lawrence, of Liverpool."
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The statues is about 1.5 times life size and shows him in formal dress with a frock coat probably representing him in a pose talking in parliament. In his right hand he is holding a paper scroll. The statue has a carved plaque underneath it.
PATRICK JAMES FOLEY
PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER OF THE
PEARL LIFE ASSURANCE CO LIMTD
EX MP FOR WEST GALWAY
These days the ground floor is a pub called Mr. Foleys.