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Edward Hyde 1st Earl of Clarendon 1609-1674

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon was an English statesman who served as Lord Chancellor to King Charles II from 1658, two years before the Restoration of the Monarchy, until 1667. He was loyal to the king, built up the royalist cause, and served as the chief minister after 1660.
Artist: Wagstaff
Date:
Size 10 x 13 cms
Price £14.00

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John Wesley 1703-1791

English cleric, theologian and evangelist who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became the dominant form of the independent Methodist movement that continues to this day.
Artist: C.Goodman
Date:
Size 10 x 14 cms
Price £28.00

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Joseph Addison 1672-1719

English essayist, poet, playwright and politician. He was the eldest son of The Reverend Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine.
Artist: Bolt after Kneller
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Size 7 x 9 cms
Price £14.00

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Samuel Pegge the elder 1704-1796

Samuel Pegge the elder was an English antiquary and clergyman. Born at Chesterfield, Derbyshire, he was the son of Christopher Pegge and his wife Gertrude, daughter of Francis Stephenson of Unstone, near Chesterfield.
Artist: A.Devis jnr
Date:
Size 14.5 x 20 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: F.Weber
Date:
Size 9 x 13 cms
Price £14.00

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John Bunyan 1628-1688

English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim’s Progress. In addition to The Pilgrim’s Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons. Bunyan came from the village of Elstow, near Bedford.
Size 12 x 14 cms
Price £28.00

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Elizabeth Brownrigg 1720-1767

Elizabeth Brownrigg was an 18th-century English murderer. Her victim, Mary Clifford, was one of her domestic servants, who died from cumulative injuries and associated infected wounds. As a result of witness testimony and medical evidence at her trial, Brownrigg was hanged at Tyburn on 14 September 1767.
Date:1767
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00

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William Pitt 1759-1806 (the Younger)

British Tory statesman of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. He became the youngest Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1783 at the age of 24 and the first UK Prime Minister in January 1801
Artist: Rosmaesler
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Size 9 x 11 cms
Price £14.00

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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston 1784-1865

British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister in the mid-19th century. Palmerston dominated British foreign policy during the period 1830 to 1865, when Britain was at the height of its imperial power
Artist: Baisch
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Size 20 x 24 cms
Price £28.00

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William Wordsworth 1770-1850

William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads.
Artist: Richler
Date:
Size 18 x 19 cms
Price £28.00

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