The statue commemorated William Crowther, the former Tasmanian premier who broke into a morgue and stole the skull of Indigenous man William Lanne in the 1800s.
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William Crowther, a prominent surgeon, broke into a Hobart morgue in 1869 and removed the skull of William Lanne and sent it to the Royal College of Surgeons in London.A bronze statue of Crowther was erected in Hobart's Franklin Square in 1889, four years after his death, in recognition of his service to the community.
"Crowther was certainly not the only person making transactions in this discredited field of 'racial science'," Hobart Lord Mayor Anna Reynolds said in a statement.
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