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William Whitla’s Bust

This bronze bust of William Whitla by Gilbert Bayes RBS is placed in a stone niche on the west wall of the Whitla Hall, in the Queen’s University of Ireland, Belfast, overlooking a stone paved terrace and the university road.

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This stone was laid by the most honourable the marquess of Londonderry
Chancellor of the University on the eight day of july 1939
John MacGeagh architect
Edward Maufe consulting architect

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  • Photos and main text by Ludovico Carbone @ Nicoletta Ventrella (August 2017).

Bibliography

  • Richard Froggatt, http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk
  • R. G. Shanks, The legacies of Sir William Whitla. The Ulster Medical Journal, Volume 63, No. 1, pp. 52 – 75, April 1994
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