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
Ref:2183
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
Ref:1826
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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Catharine Macaulay, later Catharine Graham, was an English Whig republican historian
Artist: Williams
Date:
Size 10 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
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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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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 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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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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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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