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Lord Strathcarron (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 11 March 2025

Debate

Holocaust Memorial Bill

Contribution

My Lords, the well-known Buxton memorial commemorates the Abolition of Slavery Act 1833 and marks the immense contribution of British parliamentarians who campaigned for abolition, including Wilberforce, Clarkson, Thomas Fowell Buxton and others. It was commissioned by Buxton’s son, Charles, who was also an MP. It was designed in the neo-Gothic style by Samuel Teulon. It was completed in 1866, and it was historically significant enough at the time to be placed in Parliament Square. It was removed from there and reinstated in Victoria Tower Gardens in 1957. It was placed very deliberately on an axis with St John the Evangelist church in Smith Square. It is grade 2 listed on both architectural merit and because of the significance of the historical event that it commemorates.

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