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.:
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Category Archives: English
Sir Robert Peel 1788-1850
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
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Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland 1564-1632
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Size 11 x 15 cms
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George Herbert 1593-1633 divine and poet
Subject nationality: English
Subject gender: Male
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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
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