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Autograph Letter Signed ‘Matthew Noble’, to S.C.Hall F.S.A., inviting him to call “to see the model of a sitting statue of Dr. Barrow which I am executing for Lord Lansdowne to be presented to Trinity College, Cambridge”. 2 pp, 7 x 4 inches, folds, in good condition. 13 Bruton Place, Berkeley Square, 13 January 1858. Matthew Noble (1818-1876), sculptor. Noble was born in Hackness, near Scarborough, as the son of a stonemason, and served his apprenticeship under his father. He left Yorkshire for London when quite young, there he studied under John Francis (the father of Mary Thornycroft, the sculptress). Exhibiting regularly at the Royal Academy from 1845 until his death, Noble became recognised after winning the competition to construct the Wellington Monument in Manchester in 1856. Isaac Barrow (1630 – 677), theologian and mathematician who is generally given credit for his early role in the development of infinitesimal calculus;