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The statue of Edward Colston is a bronze statue of Bristol-born merchant and trans-Atlantic slave trader Edward Colston (1636–1721). It was created in 1895 by the Irish sculptor John Cassidy and was formerly situated on a plinth of Portland stone in a public space known as The Centre in Bristol, until it was toppled by anti-racism protestors in 2020.
Colston was born on 2 November 1636, in Temple Street, Bristol, and baptised in the Temple Church, Bristol. [1] His parents were William Colston (1608–1681), a prosperous Royalist merchant who was High Sheriff of Bristol in 1643, and his wife Sarah Batten (d. 1701), daughter of Edward Batten; he was the eldest of at least 11 and possibly as many as 15 children.
R v Rhian Graham, Milo Ponsford, Jake Skuse and Sage Willoughby, known as the Colston four, was a British court case surrounding the toppling of the statue of Edward Colston, involving four defendants accused of criminal damage in relation to the removal and dumping in the harbour of the controversial statue in Bristol in 2020 during a protest.
The monument to 17th century slave trader Edward Colston was pulled down during a Black Lives Matter march in Bristol in June 2020. Four cleared of criminal damage for toppling statue of Edward ...
The memorial to Edward Colston, who died in 1721, was pulled down from its plinth and rolled into a dock last year. Toppled statue of slave trader Edward Colston goes on display in Bristol Skip to ...
The bronze memorial to the 17th century slave merchant was pulled down during a Black Lives Matter protest in Bristol on June 7 last year. ‘Irrelevant’ that Colston was a slave trader, statue ...
Statue of Edward Colston by Cassidy, The Centre, Bristol, England, 2006, pulled down and pushed into Bristol Harbour in June 2020. John Cassidy (1 January 1860 – 19 July 1939) was an Irish sculptor and painter who worked in Manchester, England, and created many public sculptures.
The We Are Bristol History Commission said the statue of the slave trader should enter the permanent collection of Bristol’s museum service. Edward Colston statue should be displayed in museum ...