Poet and physician, best known for his poem The Pleasures of Imagination
Artist: A.Pond
Date:
Size 10 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
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Category Archives: British
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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Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton GCB 1758-1815
Welsh officer of the British Army, fought in a number of campaigns for Britain in the Napoleonic Wars. According to the historian Alessandro Barbero, Picton was “respected for his courage and feared for his irascible temperament”.:
Size 7.5 x 9.5 cms
Price £14.00
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William Robertson FRSE FSA 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 9 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
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