PAUL JULIUS REUTER
BORN 1816 KASSEL, GERMANY
DIED 1899 NICE, FRANCE
FOUNDED THE WORLD NEWS ORGANISATION THAT BEARS HIS NAME IN N^O 1 ROYAL EXCHANGE BUILDINGS IN THE CITY OF LONDON, NEAR THIS SITE, ON 14 OCTOBER 1851

[The text on the other side of the monument]
THE SUPPLY OF INFORMATION TO THE WORLD’S TRADERS IN SECURITIES, COMMODOTIES AND CURRENCIES WAS THEN AND IS NOW THE MAINSPRING OF REUTERS ACTIVITIES & THE GUARANTEE OF THE FOUNDER’S AIMS OF ACCURACE, RAPIDITY AND RELIABILITY. NEWS SERVICES BASED ON THOSE PRINCIPLES NOW GO TO NEWSPAPERS, RADIO & TELEVISION NETWORKS & GOVERNMENTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. REUTERS HAS FAITHFULLY CONTINUED THE WORK BEGUN HERE. TO ATTEST THIS & TO HONOUR PAUL JULIUS REUTER THIS MEMORIAL WAS SET HERE BY REUTERS TO MARK THE 125TH ANNIVERSARY OF REUTERS FOUNDATION & INAUGURATED BY EDMUND L DE ROTHSCHILD^TD 18.10.76

A monument to the memory of the founder of the "Reuters" news agency was made by Michael Black, and was placed in 1976, near the Royal Stock Exchange building of London to mark the 125th anniversary of the establishment of the news agency and near the place where the agency was located when it was founded.

On the front side of the monument details of Reuter’s life history are summarized, and on the other side the goals of the Reuters Agency.

The other side of the monument was photographed on the same day Click for a larger image

The statue was made by Michael Black, based on a marble statue made in 1878 and made near Reuter’s retirement from managing the news agency.

Note by Suzy Harrison:
The lettering on this memorial was hand cut by stone carver Bil Brown of Oxfordshire. Bil spent the summer of 1975 in the quarry in Cornwall carving the letting to stand proud from the solid granite stone. A far more difficult and time consuming task than cutting lettering into a slab of stone.
Bil has worked on many monuments including Winston’s Churchill memorial in Bladon which has a similar style of lettering.