Statue of Robert Aske, Deptford, Greater London
This statue of Robert Aske stands in the forecourt of Aske's Haberdasher's Boys' School in Pepys Road. It dates from 1836 and shows him in the robes of the Haberdashers' Company, leaning on a plinth and holding the plans of the buildings in his hand. The plinth has an inscription about Robert Aske's Hospital which was founded in 1692. In 1689 Robert Aske left £20,000 and the residue of his estate, about another £10,000, to the Haberdashers' Company to build a hospital or almshouse. It was to be for twenty poor men of the Company and to maintain, clothe, and educate twenty sons of poor freemen.
