Thames Ditton Foundry

[1] The foundry was established in Summer Road, Thames Ditton, in 1874 by Cox & Sons, a large firm of ecclesiastical furnishing suppliers, to cast ornaments and statues in bronze.

The foundry was a leader in its field and produced fine bronze statues which it exported worldwide, including Matthew Noble's statue of the Earl of Derby in Parliament Square, Westminster (1874), Thomas Thornycroft's equestrian statue of the Earl of Mayo for Calcutta (1875), Matthew Noble's Oliver Cromwell in Manchester (1875) and his Robert Peel in Parliament Square (1876), Thomas Brock's William Rathbone in Liverpool, George E. Ewing's Robert Burns (1876), Frederic Leighton's An Athlete wrestling with a Python (1877), John Mossman's David Livingstone (1877), Thomas Woolner's John Stuart Mill (1877) on the Victoria Embankment and Captain James Cook in Sydney, Australia (1878), Richard Belt's Lord Byron at Hyde Park (1880), Thomas Brock's Robert Raikes in the Victoria Embankment Gardens (1880) and Daniel O’Connell in Dublin (1881), William Hamo Thornycroft's statue of General Gordon and related reliefs in the Victoria Embankment Gardens (1888) and his John Bright in Rochdale (1891).

[1] Other works by the foundry include Joseph Edgar Boehm's statues of Lord Lawrence in Waterloo Place (1882), Francis Drake in Tavistock (1882–83), William Tyndale in the Victoria Embankment Gardens (1884), the Duke of Wellington in Hyde Park Corner (1884–1888), Queen Victoria in Sydney (1885–1888), and the equestrian Prince Albert in Windsor Great Park (1890), among others.

They cast Thomas Brock’s Sir Bartle Frere in the Victoria Embankment Gardens (1888), Thomas Woolner's Bishop Dr James Fraser in Albert Square, Manchester (1888), George Anderson Lawson's Robert Burns in Ayr (1891), Albert Toft's Henry Richard in Tregaron (1893) and Frederick William Pomeroy's statue of Queen Victoria in Chester Castle (1903).

For Cecil Brown he cast the Imperial Camel Corps Memorial (1920–21) in the Victoria Embankment Gardens and for John Tweed his statue of Lord Kitchener (1926) on Horse Guards Parade.

For Arthur George Walker and Peter Hills he cast the statue of Emmeline Pankhurst in the Victoria Tower Gardens (1930), and for Alfred Gilbert the Queen Alexandra Memorial at Marlborough House (1930–1932).

Sir Thomas Brock (left) with King George V and Queen Mary at the Works of A. B. Burton (right) at Thames Ditton, 28 May 1921
Statue of Daniel O’Connell in Dublin by Thomas Brock (1881)
The funerary figure cast by Thames Ditton Foundry on the grave of A. B. Burton and his family in Bonner Hill Cemetery
The equestrian statue of Prince George, Duke of Cambridge by Adrian Jones in Whitehall (1909)