Southern Cemetery #7: John Cassidy

 

'IN LOVING MEMORY

OF

JOHN CASSIDY

SCULPTOR

DIED 18^TH 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