3-046-957 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Statue of the third Lord Holland, Holland Park, Kensington, 1872. 'A bronze statue of the last Lord Holland, by Mr. Watts, R. A., and Mr. Boehm, has been put up...It is a very good likeness and represents him sitting in his chair, with his walking-staff in his hand, which was his usual attitude in conversation...He was a good scholar and well acquainted with the literature of his own country, no less than with that of France, Italy, and especially of Spain, to which country and its people he was much attached, and wrote a paper on their celebrated dramatists Lope de Vega and Guillen de Castro. He was strongly attached to his uncle, Charles James Fox, and followed that statesman throughout his political life. He lived to see carried out the chief measures advocated by him - the abolition of the slave trade (which he conducted through the House of Lords in 1806), the passing of the Catholic Emancipation Act,...and the great Reform Bill of 1832...his amiable qualities, his kindness of heart, and his talents procured for him the esteem and friendship of many of those quite opposed to his opinions, such as Lord Aberdeen, Lord Liverpool, and even Lord Eldon. He was at Eton with Lord Canning and Lord Carlisle'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.