Bird, Francis (1)

Bird, Francis (1).

an English sculptor, was born in 1667. He executed, among other works, the statue of queen Anne, in the front of St. Paul's; the Conversion of St. Paul, on the pediment; and the bass-reliefs under the portico. His most important work, however, was the fine monument of Dr. Bushy, in Westminster Abbey. He died in 1721.