Location | At the south end of Bryanston Square. |
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Inscription | ERECTED BY THE FRIENDS OF WILLIAM PITT BYRNE, ESQ, M.A., AFTER A DESIGN BY HIS WIDOW IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF THE RARE COMBINATION OF ESTIMABLE QUALITIES WHICH IN LIFE HIS MODESTY CONCEALED. TO HIS STRICT INTEGRITY, POLITICAL CONSISTENCY, NOBLE DISINTERESTEDNESS, AND UNIFORM DETERMINATION TO VINDICATE THE CAUSE OF INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM, MAY BE ASCRIBED HIS SUCCESS AS PROPRIETOR OF THE MORNING POST, IN MAINTAINING THE ELEVATED TONE IT HAD ATTAINED UNDER HIS FATHER. HIS ACQUIREMENTS IN CLASSICAL AND GENERAL LITERATURE, HIS LOVE OF SCIENCE AND ART, HIS PROFICIENCY IN MUSIC, AND THE COUNTERNANCE BY WHICH HE PROMOTED THEIR CULTIVATION, WERE NOT LESS ATTRACTIVE THAN HIS SINGLENESS OF HEART, FORGIVING TEMPER, GENEROUS APPRECIATION OF OTHERS, UNOBSTRUSTIVE PIETY, AND PRACTICAL CHARITY, RENDERING THIS REFRESHING FOUNTAIN A SUITABLE MEMORIAL OF HIS WORTH. |
MDFCTA number | 0180 |
Type and size | Special fountain, marble |
Original location | Byranston Square, Marylebone |
Date erected | ?1862 |
Comments | Mr Pitt Byrne memorial. Cost £50.0.0. Erected in memory of William Pitt Byrne of the Morning Post. Cost defrayed by public subscription. For a long time the fountain was not in use and the structure only stood as a memorial. |
Reference(s) | Troughs & Drinking Fountains, Philip Davies: P-26, P-70 |