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English: Plague reads: “Adam Lindsay Gordon Monument, 1932 Paul Montford (1868-1938) Adam Lindsay Gordon was born 1833 and migrated from England to south Australia in 1853. A keen sad daring horseman, he worked as a trooper in the mounted police and as a horse breaker, and is commemorated as a jockey at Flemington racecourse with free steeplechase wins in one day. Financial legacy freed him to write. He published ‘The feud’ in 1864, ‘Sea spray and smoke drift’ and ‘Ashtaroth’ in 1867 and ‘Bush ballads and galloping Rhymes’ in 1870. Though popular they were not financially successful and he shot himself on 24 June 1870. He is buried in Brighton General Cemetery. Paul Montford was responsible for a number of sculptural commissions in Melbourne, including the four granite buttress groups for the Shrine of Remembrance. He was awarded the gold medal from the Royal Society for this work in 1934. He chose to depict Gordon in an unusually relaxed pose, captured deep in thought while writing, dressed in riding apparel, his saddle beneath his chair. Two of Gordon's best known lines are inscribed on the pedestal together with his family crest. A dedication by his contemporary, Henry Kendall is inscribed on the back. City of Melbourne” https://citycollection.melbourne.vic.gov.au/adam-lindsay-gordon-memorial |
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