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Image: Alderman Whitson's Monument

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Description: Engraving of a monument to John Whitson - a seventeenth-century Bristol merchant, former mayor and founder of Red Maid's School. The monument itself was erected in the early nineteenth century but destroyed in 1940 when St Nicholas Church was bombed during the Bristol Blitz
Title: Alderman Whitson's Monument
Credit: John Eden (ed.), A Pious Meditation, composed in the seventeenth century by John Whitson, Alderman of the City of Bristol (Bristol, 1829)
Author: Thomas Leeson Scrase Rowbotham (original artist); John le Keux (engraver)
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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