Military & Memorials
Duke of York Column
The 'Grand Old Duke of York' of the nursery rhyme stands on a 42-metre granite column paid for by stopping a day's wages from every soldier in the army. Wits of the day said he was placed so high to escape his creditors — he died £2 million in debt.
- Subject
- Prince Frederick, Duke of York
- Sculptor
- Sir Richard Westmacott (statue); Benjamin Dean Wyatt (column)
- Unveiled
- 1834
- Material
- Bronze on granite column
- Location
- Waterloo Place, overlooking The Mall
