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A statue of John Winthrop by Richard Saltonstall Greenough (sometimes called John Winthrop or Governor Winthrop) is installed outside Boston's First Church, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Description. The bronze sculpture of
John Winthrop is a marble sculpture of John Winthrop by Richard Saltonstall Greenough, installed in the United States Capitol, in Washington D.C., as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection. It is one of two statues donated by the state of Massachusetts. [1]
John Winthrop was born in Suffolk County, England, on January 12, 1587 or 1588. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge, and was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1613. Winthrop's Puritan convictions led him to take an interest in the new Massachusetts Bay Colony in the New World.
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Feb 18, 2020 · (AP/Steven Senne) A nineteenth-century bronze statue of John Winthrop, by sculptor Richard Saltonstall Greenough, stands outside the First Church in Boston.
