Statesmen & Leaders
William Huskisson
Huskisson, a reforming trade minister, was struck by Stephenson's Rocket at the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1830 — the first widely reported railway death. Gibson dressed him, incongruously, in a Roman toga, prompting one critic to call it 'boredom rising from the bath'.
- Subject
- William Huskisson MP, the railway age's first famous casualty
- Sculptor
- John Gibson
- Unveiled
- 1836
- Material
- Marble
- Location
- Pimlico Gardens, Grosvenor Road
