A STATUE TO COOK
" The statue oif Captain Cook, by Mr. John Tweed, is finely placed upon Whitby West Cliff, overlooking the harbour, whence Cook so often sailed," says the Saturday Review. "Mr. Gervase Beckett, giving this memorial to the people of Whitby, said that here was the right statue in the right place. It was unveiled by Lord Charles Beresford, who iells us now first he was fired by Cook's example to follow the Sea. The statue is inscribed : 'For the lasting memory of a great Yorkshire Seaman, this Bronze has been cast, and is left in the keeping of Whitby ; the Birthplace of ttfose Good Ships that bore him on 'his Enterprises, brought him to Glory,- and left him at Rest.' "
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 138, 7 December 1912, Page 16
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123A STATUE TO COOK Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 138, 7 December 1912, Page 16
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