23 February 2014

Southern Cemetery #7: John Cassidy

 
'IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
JOHN CASSIDY
SCULPTOR
DIED 18TH JULY 1939
AGED 79 YEARS.
 
HIS HANDS FASHIONED
THE BEAUTY HE SAW.'
 
Cassidy was the sculptor of the original statue of Ben Brierley in Queen's Park, now reproduced in bronze in Failsworth by Denise Dutton, and of the statues of John Rylands and his wife Enriqueta in John Rylands Library.

My other posts on Southern Cemetery graves:

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The Manchester Sound
L. S. Lowry
Maria Pawlikowska–Jasnorzewska
David Martin
George Ghita Ionescu
John and Enriqueta Rylands
Jerome Caminada
George Freemantle
Leo Grindon and Rosa Grindon
Eric Thompson

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