The Holborn Monument
the Holborn Monument
Millen Hills [54, 13]
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The Holborn Monument
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History
The statue known as the Holborn Monument is not, as many believe, dedicated to a Lord Holborn, but by him. In the late 19th century, the upstart peer Holborn had all but renounced the trappings of his peerage, withdrawing himself from his seat in the House of Lords, and travelling south to London to study at King's College. Eventually earning his doctorate in the field of chemistry, he returned to his home of Malton in order to assist the founding of St. Dionysius's Hospital. In tribute to the change of lifestyle he had undertaken, he used the remainder of his inheritance, after the bulk of it was given to the foundling hospital, to have an immense bronze statue of the reknowned chemist and man of science, Lord Kelvin, erected, with the inscription reading To that giant whose works penetrated the darkness of man's ignorance, Kelvin, from a humble novice, Holborn. However, with age - and with the dereliction of much of Millen Hills, in the face of the undead and their doomsday cults, this lettering has now crumbled and worn, reading only To that giant... darkness... Holborn. Today the monument is known only by this half-inscription, which is even then often obscured by blood and bile. Whatever darkness Kelvin's science dispelled has surely returned.