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
Ref:1257
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
Ref:2992
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
Ref:2977
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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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
Ref:1401
Catharine Macaulay, later Catharine Graham, was an English Whig republican historian
Artist: Williams
Date:
Size 10 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1386
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
Ref:1361