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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Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, PC, of Orchard Wyndham in Somerset, Petworth House in Sussex, and of Egremont House in Mayfair, London, was a British statesman who served as Secretary of State for the Southern Department from 1761-63
Size 14 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
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John Lydgate of Bury was a monk and poet, born in Lidgate, near Haverhill, Suffolk, England. Lydgate’s poetic output is prodigious, amounting, at a conservative count, to about 145,000 lines.:
Size 17 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
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Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, FRS was a British Conservative statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and twice as Home Secretary. He is regarded as the father of modern British policing, owing to his founding of the Metropolitan Police Service.
Size 11 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
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English nobleman. He was a grandee and one of the wealthiest peers of the court of Elizabeth I. Under James I, Northumberland was a long-term prisoner in the Tower of London, due to the suspicion that he was complicit in the Gunpowder Plot
Artist: VanDyke
Date:
Size 10 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
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Oliver Cromwell was an 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.
Size 8 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
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Sir Richard Baker was a politician, historian and religious writer. He was the English author of the Chronicle of the Kings of England and other works
Size 16.5 x 23 cms
Price £28.00
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Maria Ann Campion was a popular Irish actress and the second wife of Alexander Pope the actor. She was born in Waterford, Ireland and died in London on 18 June 1803, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
Artist: Pope
Date:1798
Size 9 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
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Cornish chemist and inventor, who is best remembered today for isolating, using electricity, a series of elements for the first time: potassium and sodium in 1807 and calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium and boron the following year
Artist: Toller
Date:1834
Size 13 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
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English poet of the Romantic school, one of the Lake Poets along with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and England’s Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 until his death in 1843.
Artist: Lawrence
Date:
Size 11 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
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