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George Rennie (1801 or 1802 – 22 March 1860) was a Scottish sculptor, and Member of Parliament (MP) for Ipswich, and patron of the arts, who served as Governor of the Falkland Islands between 1847 and 1855.

George Rennie's statue Cupid Rekindling the Torch of Hymen
George Rennie's statue Cupid Rekindling the Torch of Hymen

Life


George Rennie was born in Phantassie, East Lothian, Scotland, to the agriculturist George Rennie by the same's wife. He was a nephew of the engineer John Rennie.

Rennie studied sculpture in Rome before he returned to Britain to exhibit statues and busts at the Royal Academy, and three times at the Suffolk Street Gallery, from 1828 to 1837. His most important works at the academy were: A Gleaner and Grecian Archer (both 1828); Cupid and Hymen (which depicts Cupid blowing the torch of Hymen) which is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum; and busts of Bertel Thorvaldsen and his uncle John Rennie (1831). His commended 1833 works included: The Archer (which he afterwards presented to the Athenaeum Club, London, and a bust of the artist David Wilkie. He exhibited The Minstrel in 1834. Rennie's 1836 suggestion to Sir Sir William Ewart that he form a Parliamentary Committee provoked the creation of schools of design at Somerset House. He assisted the efforts of Joseph Hume to obtain public freedom of access to all monuments and works of art that were in public either buildings or museums.

Rennie from 1841 to 1842 was Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Ipswich. His election was in May 1842 voided, and he in May 1842 withdrew from the 1847 general election to enable the election of Hugh Adair. He in 1842 proposed the 'New Edinburgh' for a Scottish settlement in New Zealand, the development of which is now called Dunedin. Rennie on 15 December 1847, was invested as Governor of the Falkland Islands, from which he returned to England in 1855. He died in London on 22 March 1860.

Rennie's sons included: Richard Rennie, Chief Justice of the British Supreme Court for China and Japan; and William Hepburn Rennie, Auditor-General of Hong Kong and Lieutenant-Governor of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.


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Attribution


Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Fitzroy Kelly and
Sir Thomas John Cochrane
Member of Parliament for Ipswich
1841–1842
With: Rigby Wason
Succeeded by
Otway O'Connor Cuffe and
Thomas Gladstone
Political offices
Preceded by
Lt. Richard Clement Moody
Governor of the Falkland Islands
1848–1855
Succeeded by
Capt. Thomas Edward Laws Moore

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George Rennie (Escocia, 1801 o 1802 - Londres, 22 de marzo de 1860) fue un escultor, político y administrador colonial escocés. Entró en la política en apoyo a las artes en Gran Bretaña y ayudó a lograr el libre acceso al arte público y los museos. Era un miembro del Parlamento del Reino Unido en representación de Ipswich, entre 1842 y 1847. Ese año fue nombrado como el segundo gobernador colonial del territorio británico de ultramar de las Islas Malvinas, en litigio con Argentina.



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