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Oliver Cromwell 1599-1658

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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1408

Richard Baker 1568-1645

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 1775-1803

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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Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet 1778-1829

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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Robert Southey 1774-1843

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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Saint Edmund Campion, 1540-1581

English Catholic Jesuit priest and martyr. While conducting an underground ministry in officially Anglican England, Campion was arrested by priest hunters. Convicted of high treason, he was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn.
Size 16 x 23 cms
Price £28.00

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William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield 1705-1793

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, PC, SL was a British barrister, politician and judge noted for his reform of English law. Born to Scottish nobility, he was educated in Perth, Scotland, before moving to London at the age of 13 to take up a place at Westminster School.
Artist: W.Reid
Date:
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00

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William Hawes 1736-1808

English physician and philanthropist, founder of the Royal Humane Society. As well as his work to spread the practice of resuscitation, he was concerned to relieve poverty in east London.
Artist: Bertonnier
Date:
Size 12 x 21 cms
Price £28.00

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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 13 x 19 cms
Price £28.00

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