Hugh Blair FRSE was a Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician, considered one of the first great theorists of written discourse.
Artist: Raeburn
Date:1836
Size 18 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
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Oliver Cromwell 1599-1658
English military and political leader. He served as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland “and of the dominions thereto belonging” from 1653 until his death, acting simultaneously as head of state and head of government of the new republic.
Artist: Pobuda
Date:
Size 11 x 9 cms
Price £14.00
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Oliver Goldsmith 1728-1774 author
Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield, his pastoral poem The Deserted Village, and his plays The Good-Natur’d Man and She Stoops to Conquer. He is thought to have written the classic children’s tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes.
Size 16 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
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Sir John Norris or Norreys 1547-1597
Sir John Norris or Norreys, of Rycote, Oxfordshire, and of Yattendon and Notley in Berkshire, was an English soldier, the son of Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys, a lifelong friend of Queen Elizabeth.
Artist: Zucchero
Date:
Size 14 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
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Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham & Vaux 1778-1868
Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, PC, QC, FRS was a British statesman who became Lord High Chancellor and played a prominent role in passing the 1832 Reform Act and 1833 Slavery Abolition Act
Size 16 x 23 cms
Price £28.00
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Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux 1778-1868
Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, PC, QC, FRS was a British statesman who became Lord High Chancellor and played a prominent role in passing the 1832 Reform Act and 1833 Slavery Abolition Act
Artist: Ponicke
Date:
Size 15 x 23 cms
Price £28.00
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George Osbaldeston 1786-1866
George Osbaldeston, best known as Squire Osbaldeston, was an English politician who served as a Member of Parliament but who had his greatest impact as a sportsman and first-class cricketer.
Artist: Woodhouse
Date:
Size 13 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
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Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford 1676-1745
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, PC, known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British politician who is generally regarded as the de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain
Size 8.5 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
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John Law of Lauriston 1671-1729
John Law was a Scottish economist who believed that money was only a means of exchange that did not constitute wealth in itself and that national wealth depended on trade. He was appointed Controller General of Finances of France under the Duke of Orleans, who served as regent for the youthful king, Louis XV.
Size 10 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
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George III 1738-1820 King of England
George III was king of Great Britain and king of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death in 1820
Artist: Reynolds
Date:1813
Size 10 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
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