London's Statues and Monuments by Peter Matthews

Author:Peter Matthews
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: London’s Statues and Monuments
ISBN: 9781782001119
Publisher: Osprey Publishing

The Duke of York on top of his column.

On the eastern side of Waterloo Place, at the Pall Mall end, is a statue of the Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868–1912). Scott had a successful expedition in the Discovery in 1900–4, but when, in 1910, he returned to Antarctica in an attempt to reach the South Pole, he discovered that Amundsen had got there before him, and he and his four colleagues perished on the return journey. The original choice for a memorial was a symbolic group of Courage sustained by Patriotism, but the task was then offered to the explorer’s widow, Kathleen Scott. Her statue, showing him in a polar outfit, was unveiled in 1915 by Arthur Balfour, First Lord of the Admiralty. The original inscription only mentioned Scott, but in 1923 it was replaced by the current plaque, which gives the names of Wilson, Bower, Oates and Evans, who died with him.

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