Phuket Town founder Phraya Wichit Songkham to be honoured with B8.7mn statue

By The Phuket News

 

The statue is being created by renowned Thai artist Santi Pichetchaikul, who created the sculpture of Bhumibol Adulyadej that is on display at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where King Bhumibol was born. Photo: NNT

 

PHUKET: A statue of Phraya Wichit Songkhram rising to nearly three metres tall will be installed in the heart of Phuket Town as a monument to honour and remember the achievements of the man regarded as the founding father of Phuket Town.

 

The statue will be of Phraya Wichit Songkhram in a seated position. Cast in bronze, the statue will be 2.55m tall and up to 1.99m across, Phuket City Mayor Somjai Suwansupana announced at the Phuket City Municipality offices in Phuket Town on Friday (Nov 8).

 

The base for the statue will be 2.3m square and 1.8m high, and the area around the statue to be developed for the monument will cover 164 square metres, Mayor Somjai explained.

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interesting tie-in with Phuket and the founders of Penang and Adelaide.

 

Francis Light serving the East India Company spent 10 years based in Thalang (Phuket) from about 1765. He married a local of Portuguese origin, they had a son William who eventually surveyed what became Adelaide. Francis helped thwart a Burmese attack on Phuket and was even nominated for governor which King Rama 2 opposed. He eventually founded Penang. In 1776-77 he even supplied arms to Taksin the Great in the Kingdom of Thonburi.

 

William also had an interesting career (considering he was Eurasian) before Adelaide and served under the Duke of Wellington.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Light

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Light

Wouldn't it be better to spent All those THB millions to get rid of all the  soi dog/cats. 

One can get rid of quite a few Hundred thousand.  Lead, cal .22 is very cheap