Sir Henry Cole (1808-82) was an official who played a leading role in the schools of design and, in close association with Prince Albert, helped organise the Great Exhibition on 1851. A vigorous promoter of the South Kensington Museum and numerous other projects, Cole was secretary of the Science and Art Department. The plaster but was made by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm in 1875.

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