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she ascended the throne or shortly after- wards. It is the work of Mr. Broad, pre- sumably one of the artists employed by Messrs. Doulton, the statue being the gift of that firm. The inscription reads : " Vic- toria | R.I. | 1837-1897. } She wrought her people lasting good."

Royal Marines' Memorial. This artistic work is situated in the Cambridge Enclosure of St. James's Park, close to Spring Gardens. It is a bronze group of a soldier of this corps protecting a fallen comrade, and is the work of Capt. Adrian Jones. The inscription is :

" Erected | by the officers and men | of the | Royal Marines | in memory of their | comrades who were killed in action | or died of wounds or disease in | South Africa and China, | 1899-1900."

At the back are the names of those com- memorated ; and at the sides two plaques give two of the actions.

Sir J. E. Millais, Bart., P.R.A. In the grounds of the National Gallery of British Art (popularly known as the Tate Gallery), at the right of the entrance, is a bronze statue of the distinguished painter, the work of Mr. Thomas Brock, R.A. It was exposed to view on some date between July and November, 1905, but there was no public ceremony of any kind.

Sir Sydney Hedley Waterlow, Bart. In the centre of the grass plat in front of the Westminster City Schools, Palace Street, leading from Victoria Street to Buckingham Palace Road, is a statue to this gentleman, the gift of Lady Waterlow. The inscription reads : " Sir | Sydney Hedley Waterlow, | Baronet, j Chairman of the Board of Gover- nors, | 1873-1906." The memorial, the work of Mr. F. M. Taubman (who was also the sculptor of the statue in Waterlow Park), was unveiled by the late Mr. Henry Arthur Hunt, Deputy Chairman of the Governors, on 27 June, 1901, in the presence of the then Lord Mayor, Mr. Alderman Frank Green. The date 1906 was added after Sir Sydney's death.

Cardinal Newman. In the grounds of the Oratory, and close to the residences of the brothers, facing the Cromwell Road, is a statue to this widely loved man. It was erected by general subscription in 1896. The design is by Messrs. Bodley and Garner, and was carried out by Messrs. Farmer & Brindley of Westminster Bridge Road. The figure of the Cardinal in his robes is in Campanella marble ; the remainder is in Portland stone, and is surmounted by a small statue of the Madonna of San Sisto, in the same material. The inscription is

simply : " John Henry | Cardinal Newman,
 * 1801-1890."

Like MB. PAGE, I hope that all who can assist will do their best to promote the completion of the list of memorials in Lon- don. Of those further afield I say nothing at present. W. E. HABLAND-OXLEY.

Westminster.

87. The obelisk in honour of Brass Crosby, Lord Mayor in 1771, was removed from St. George's Circus in 1905, and placed in St. George's Road, near Bethlehem Hos- pital, of which Crosby had been President.

W. T. LYNN,

Blackheath.

MB. PAGE, ante, p. 123, inquires whether the statue of (?) Alfred the Great still stands in Trinity Square, Southwark. As one of the correspondents of ' N. & Q.' on the subject of the statue (8. S. viii. 85, 230), I was naturally interested in MB. PAGE 'a query, and have therefore paid another visit to Trinity Square, and can assure him that the statue is still in situ. It stands on a plinth about two feet from the ground, in the centre of a square grass plat of some dimensions, railed off from, but immediately adjacent to, the churchyard of Holy Trinity. The figure is about twelve feet in height, and the face is that of a grave-looking bearded man, bearing a resemblance to the conventional portraits of Alfred.

I may mention that in the vestibule of the Free Library here at Lewisham there- is a bronze medallion of Alfred in profile, which shows a face similar to that of the statue. Alfred the Great was Lord of the Manor of Lewisham, and the medallion was placed there at the cost of the Library Com- missioners in 1901, the millennial year of Alfred's death. F. A. RUSSELL.

4, Nelgarde Road, Catford, S.E.

The statue of Robert Aske, about which MB. PAGE inquires, ante, p. 123, may now be seen at Hatcham, in front of the modern Aske's Haberdashers' Boys' School.

G. T. PlLCHEB.

CONSTABLES AND LIEUTENANTS OF THE: TOWEB OF LONDON (10 S. ix. 61, 161,. 243, 390, 490; x. 70, 118). There was no Roger de " Synnerton " (10 S. ix. 62, col. 2) Constable of the Tower in 1322. The name should be Roger de Swynnerton.

From the ' Calendar of Close Rolh ' (Record Office, Edward III., 1339-41, pp. 297-8) we learn that " Edward II. committed the custody of the Tower to