Metcalfe’s statue has proved more enduring than the parish which, formed from parts of St. George and St. Mary and named after him in 1841, was merged into St. Mary in 1867 by Grant’s reduction of the parishes from twenty-two to fourteen. The statue is by Edward Hodges Baily, R.A., a pupil of Flaxman, and a sculptor of high aims and pure ideals, by whom there is also a bust of Metcalfe in the Metcalfe Hall, Calcutta. He is represented bare-headed, and wearing the insignia of the Bath. The statue on its double pedestal stands too high to be well seen. On the front of the original pedestal is the following inscription, now almost illegible from the ground, partly because of its great height and partly because the painting has worn off the letters: THIS STATUE IS ERECTED IN HONOR OF THE RT. HON. SIR CHARLES THEOPHILUS METCALFE, BART, K.C.B. NOW BARON METCALFE BY THE GRATEFUL INHABITANTS OF JAMAICA IN COMMEMORATION OF THE BENEFITS DERIVED FROM HIS WISE, JUST AND BENEFICIAL ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE ISLAND A.D. 1845. On the west face are the arms of Jamaica (on which the cross is tricked _or_ instead of _gules_, and the crest is placed on an esquire’s helmet); on the east those of Metcalfe. On the back is an emblematic design with figures of Justice and Mercy on either side of an altar on which rests an anchor. On the lower pedestal, erected originally to receive Rodney’s statue, is placed an earthenware tablet (similar to those erected by the Royal Society of Arts in London) which was put up by the Institute of Jamaica in 1892 to record the fact that: 12 FEET WEST OF THE CENTRE OF THE PEDESTAL, COMMANDER GREEN, U.S.N. IN 1875 ERECTED THE LONGITUDE STATION OF KINGSTON AND FOUND IT TO BE 5h. 7m. 10·65 s. (76° 47′ 39·8″) WEST OF GREENWICH. I.J. The great weight of this lower pedestal enabled the statue to stand the earthquake of 1907 unmoved; while every other statue in Kingston was either thrown down or slued round on its base.