Adam Lindsay Gordon
The plaque is on the path near the statue. This really is a case of always read the plaque as I'd not heard of him and I was expecting just another politician. You also get bonus biography of the sculptor.
Plaque reads:
'Adam Lindsay Gordon Monument, 1932
Paul Montford (1868 - 1938)
Adam Lindsay Gordon was born in 1833 and migrated from England to South Australia in 1853. a keen and daring horseman, he worked as a trooper in the mounted police and as a horse breaker and is commemorated as a jockey at Flemington Racecourse with three steeplechace wins in one day.
A financial legacy freed him to write. He published The Feud in 1864, Sea Spray and Smoke Drift and Ashtaroth in 1867 and Bush Ballards and Galloping Rhymes in 1870. Though popular they were not financially successful and he shot himself on 24 June 1870. He is buried in Brighton General Cemetery.
Paul Mountford was responsible for a number of sculptural commissions in Melbourne, including the four granite buttress groups for the Shrine of Remembrance. He was awarded the gold medal from the Royal Society for his work in 1934. He chose to depict Gordon in a unusually relaxed pose, captured deep in thought while writing, dressed in riding apparel, his saddle beneath his chair.
Two of Gordon's best know lines are inscribed in the pedestal together with his family crest. a dedication by his contemporary, Henry Kendall, is inscribed on the back.'
Submitted By: @ianThorp