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STATUE OF THE MERRY MONARCH, l By Air Mail—From Our Own Correspondent] LONDON, 3rd March. Surprisingly few people are taking the trouble to stroll through Soho Square and view the restored statue of the Merry Monarch. Yet the old residential houses round the Square as well as the stone ' clligy of King Charles 11 are well worth a pilgrimage. The statue is by Cains 1 Gabriel Cibber,, a contemporary artist of! the monarch it immortalises, and stood during the King s lifetime in a Soho i Square fountain. It was rather badly the ! worse for wear, and partisan ill-treatment j perhaps, when it was dismantled in 1876. ! It then passed into oblivion at HarrowWeald under the roof of Mr Goodall, R.A., whose residence later became the home of Mr W. S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan fame. Its last resting place till now was in the middle of a pond. Fortunately ! its Portland stone defies time and calumny, and, admirably, restored, it now shows the Merry Monarch, one of the most enlightened and cultured of English Kings in armoured majesty, flowing locks, and with a scroll in his light hand. This is King Charles IPs second Restoration.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 29 March 1938, Page 9
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