English barrister, judge, and politician who is considered to be the greatest jurist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras
Size 8 x 9.5 cms
Price £14.00
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Category Archives: English
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle 1696–1768
Duke of Newcastle, held major political office for nearly 4 decades, the ultimate insider of 18th-century British politics. He was both Secretary of State and First Lord of the Treasury.
Artist: Proud
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Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
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John Law of Lauriston 1671-1729
John Law was a Scottish economist who believed that money was only a means of exchange that did not constitute wealth in itself and that national wealth depended on trade. He was appointed Controller General of Finances of France under the Duke of Orleans, who served as regent for the youthful king, Louis XV.
Size 10 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
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John Holt 1743-1801
English author, contributed many papers to the Gentleman’s Magazine, and for a long period communicated the monthly ‘Meteorological Diary’ to that periodica
Artist: J.Jackson
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Size 12 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
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Sir John Fortescue 1394-1479
Sir John Fortescue of Ebrington in Gloucestershire, was Chief Justice of the King’s Bench and was the author of De Laudibus Legum Angliae, first published posthumously circa 1543, an influential treatise on English law.
Artist: T.Cook
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Size 12 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
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Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover 1771-1851
Ernest Augustus was King of Hanover from 20 June 1837 until his death in 1851. As the fifth son of George III of the United Kingdom and Hanover, he initially seemed unlikely to become a monarch, but none of his elder brothers had a legitimate son.
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
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Mary I, Queen of England 1516-1558
Mary Tudor (1516–58) was Queen Mary I from 1553 until her death. She was the first female ruler of England. The only child of Henry VIII and his first wife, Katharine of Aragon, she was almost immediately embroiled in European dynastic politics when, at the age of two, she was betrothed to the Dauphin of France.
Subject gender: Female
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Size 13 x 13 cms
Price £28.00
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Edmund Gibson 1669-1748
British divine who served as Bishop of Lincoln and Bishop of London, jurist, and antiquary
Artist: Vanderbank
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Size 14 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
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George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield 1717-1790 General; defender of Gibraltar
British Army officer who served in three major wars during the eighteenth century. He rose to distinction during the Seven Years’ War when he fought in Germany and participated in the British attacks on Belle Île and Cuba.
Artist: Mansfield
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Size 10 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
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Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford 1676-1745
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, PC, known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British politician who is generally regarded as the de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain
Size 8.5 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
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