The Spencer Cowper Monument by Roubiliac, Hertingfordbury, Herts.

The Spencer Cowper Monument.

Louis Francois Roubiliac.

St Mary's Church. Hertingfordbury, Herts.

1752.

 Spencer Cowper (1669-1728), of Hertingfordbury Park, Herts.; Lincoln’s Inn; and Bridge House, St. Olave’s, Southwark.

Spencer Cowper d.1727, Judge of the Pleas, the memorial is in a window embrasure on north wall of the church, a black marble cartouche with inscription, above a scrolled and pedimented surround in black marble, with a relief of Cowper in judge's robes, seated between the figures of Wisdom and Justice, carved 1752 by Roubiliac.

For an excellent short biography of Spencer Cowper see -

https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/cowper-spencer-1669-1728

All photographs of the monument taken by the author.

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Duncan Forbes.

Louis Francois Roubiliac.

put up in 1752.

Parliament House Edinburgh.

Included here because of the similarity of the pose.

Photographs Courtesy Courtauld.

see - https://www.clan-forbes.org/duncan-forbes



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Photograph courtesy Kim Traynor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Forbes_of_Culloden_(judge,_born_1685)#/media/File:Duncan_Forbes_of_Culloden_statue,_Parliament_Hall,_Edinburgh.JPG