Object number
UAC/10419
Title
Lord Overstone,
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Description
Bust of Lord Overstone. Monogram on back [GJ.] with date (1884)
Physical description
marble
Label Text
<div style="text-align:Justify;font-family:Georgia;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:16;color:#000000;"><p><span><span>Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (Count Gleichen) 1833-1891</span></span></p><p><span><span>Marble bust of Lord Overstone, 1884</span></span></p><p><span><span>Count Gleichen was the half-nephew of Queen Victoria, and the Retired Admiral of the British Royal Navy. In his retirement he became a sculptor. Some of his notable work is the Kind Alfred statue in the market square of Wantage, Oxfordshite, and the statue of Queen Victoria in Royal Holloway College, University of London.</span></span></p><p><span><span>Lord Overstone, Samuel Loyd-Jones, was a banker and politician. He is viewed as one of the significant figures in Britain's financial history. During his lifetime he sat in parliament for Hythe as a member of the Whig party from 1819 to 1826, even after he lost his seat he was still called upon for consultation by ministers. He became the head of the bank Jones, Loyd & Co. after his father retired in 1844. As well as a banker and MP, he also served on the committe for the British Relief Association, which raised money for famine victims in Ireland. He died in 1883, his title dying with him as he had no surviving male heir. Lord Overstone's daughter, Harriet Loyd-Lindsay, Lady Wantage, was the founder of Wantage Hall at University College Reading (now the University of Reading). In 1920, Lady Wantage bequeathed a private library to the University, once belonging to her father. This collection can be attributed to being the foundation collection of the University Library.</span></span></p></div>
Production date
1884 - 1884
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The University of Reading Art Collection
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