Equestrian statue of the Earl Roberts
The Equestrian statue of the Earl Roberts stands at the northeast corner of Horse Guards Parade in Westminster. Bronze shows Field Marshal Frederick Roberts mounted in full military uniform, with medals, reins and sharply modelled horse muscles.
Harry Bates created the monument, unveiled in 1923 to commemorate Roberts’s command of British forces during the Second Anglo-Boer War. Portland limestone supports the rider, while the plinth carries the simple inscription “Roberts” and Grade II listed status. The sculpture duplicates an earlier monument inaugurated in Kolkata in 1898, with another version in Glasgow.
Horse Guards Parade places the memorial among statues of Viscount Wolseley, Lord Kitchener and Lord Mountbatten. Nearby, the eighteenth-century Horse Guards building frames the ceremonial ground, where the King’s Life Guard performs its mounted change. Look closely at the bronze folds, polished honours and anatomical detail joining rider, saddle and horse.
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