The Soho Sphinxes

The Soho Sphinxes Matthew Boulton was a great entrepreneur and industrialist who was born in 1728 and died in 1809.

We are two Greek style sphinxes who have seen & heard everything that has happened at Soho House since we arrived in 1795 - page to promote Soho House Museum & Matthew Boulton! We are two Greek style sphinxes carved from Portland Stone that were purchased in 1795 by Matthew Boulton for a Sphinx Walk in the Pleasure Gardens at his home, Soho House in Handsworth, Birmingham. He was a founding member

of the Lunar Society, a group of great thinkers and inventors who met regularly at his home at Soho House. For more information go to http://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/soho-house or better still visit the Museum! After Mr Boulton died we were taken to Great Tew in Oxfordshire when his descendants moved there and were purchased by Birmingham City Council when the last family member died. We lived at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in the Industrial Gallery for a while but moved back to our home at Soho House in July 2012 where we now live in the Tea Room!

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