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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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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
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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: J.Thomson
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Size 10 x 13 cms
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Samuel Johnson 1709-1784

Dr. Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. He was a devout Anglican. Politically, he was a committed Tory
Artist: J.Bacon(statuary)
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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
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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
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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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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
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Alexander Pope 1688-1744

Regarded as one of the greatest English poets, and the foremost poet of the early eighteenth century. He is best known for his satirical and discursive poetry—including The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and An Essay on Criticism—as well as for his translation of Homer.
Size 10 x 16 cms
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Samuel Johnson 1709-1784

Dr. Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. He was a devout Anglican. Politically, he was a committed Tory.
Size 10 x 16.5 cms
Price £28.00

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