Category Archives: British

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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George Buchanan 1506-1583

George Buchanan was a Scottish historian and humanist scholar. According to historian Keith Brown, Buchanan was “the most profound intellectual sixteenth century Scotland produced.” His ideology of resistance to royal usurpation gained widespread acceptance during the Scottish Reformation
Artist: Poubus
Date:
Size 105 x 13 cms
Price £38.00

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William Robertson 1721-1793

Scottish historian, minister in the Church of Scotland, and Principal of the University of Edinburgh. “The thirty years during which [he] presided over the University perhaps represent the highest point in its history.”
Artist: Joshua Reynolds
Date:1837
Size 13 x 16 cms
Price £28.00

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Elizabeth Fry (née Gurney) 1780-1845

Elizabeth Fry, often referred to as Betsy Fry, was an English prison reformer, social reformer and, as a Quaker, a Christian philanthropist. She has often been referred to as the “angel of prisons”
Artist: C. Mayer
Date:
Size 8 x 11 cms
Price £14.00

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Sir Philip Sidney 1554-1586

Sir Philip Sidney was an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age. His works include Astrophel and Stella, The Defence of Poesy and The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia.
Size 20 x 26 cms
Price £28.00

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Sir Edward Massey 1619-1674 Major General Royalist

Sir Edward Massey was an English soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1646 and 1674. He fought for the Parliamentary cause for the first and second English Civil Wars before changing allegiance and fighting for King Charles II during the Third Civil War
Size 11 x 20 cms
Price £28.00

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John Landcaster 1778-1838 educationalist

English Quaker and public education innovator. He developed, and propagated on the grounds both of economy and efficacy, a monitorial system of primary education. In the first decades of the 19th century his ideas found application in new schools established in growing industrial centres.
Size 11 x 14 cms
Price £28.00

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