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3051

John Hampden 1594-1643 Statesman

One of the central figures at the start of the English Revolution. He entered Parliament as an MP in 1621, eight years before Charles I dissolved Parliament. Ship Money was a tax sometimes levied on coastal towns in wartime to pay for ships to protect the country from invasion. Charles, no longer receiving money from Parliament, in 1635 extended the Ship Money tax to include inland towns and counties. This attempt to create a new form of taxation without parliamentary sanction was resisted by Hampden, who refused to pay the levy. The king was unable to collect Ship Money, and was forced to recall Parliament in 1640. Hampden was one of the five MPs selected by Charles I for impeachment in 1642.

Subject gender: Male
Artist: Robert Walker
Size 20 x 13 cms

Price £14.00

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3054

John Gay 1685-1732 poet and dramatist

Poet and dramatist, best remembered for his hugely successful dramatic satire The Beggar’s Opera . Along with his friend Alexander Pope. Gay was a member of the Scriblerus Club, a group of like-minded men who exposed and attacked ignorance and pretentiousness in literature. Johnson did not rate Gay’s poetry highly but credited him with the invention of the ballad opera.

Subject gender: Male
Artist: William Aikman
Size 16 x 9 cms

Price £14.00

 

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3044

Robert Heath 1575-1649

Judge of Tunbridge, Kent and St.Johns College Cambridge

Subject gender: Male
Artist: Richard Sawyer 1836 after W.Hollar 1664

Size 29 x 24 cms

Price £18.00

 

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1131

Richard Colley Wellesley Marquess Wellesley 1760-1842

Wellesley (brother of Wellington) played a vital role in the consolidation of British rule in India during the Regency. In 1793 he became a commissioner of the Board of Control for India and in 1797 was appointed Governor-General of India. He was later a Foreign Secretary and served twice as Viceroy of Ireland.

Subject gender: Male
Artist: Sir Thomas Lawrence

Size 22 x 14 cms

Price £18.00

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1359

Lady Margaret Beaufort 1443-1509 Mother of Henry VII

Married Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond and half brother of King Henry VI in 1455. Their son Henry was born in Pembroke Castle in 1457, three months after Tudor’s death from the plague.

Subject gender: Female
Artist: W.H.Mote

Size 28 x 18 cms

Price £18.00

 

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1355

Elizabeth of York 1466-1503, Queen of Henry VII

The daughter of Edward IV, Elizabeth married Henry VII in 1486, thus uniting the Houses of York and Lancaster. She bore him seven children, four of whom survived infancy: Prince Arthur ,Henry VIII , Margaret, Queen of Scotland , and Mary, Queen of France and subsequently Duchess of Suffolk .
Subject gender: Female
Artist: W.Holl

Size 28 x 18 cms

Price £18.00

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1354

William Warham 1450?-1532 Archbishop of Canterbury

An influential churchman and statesman, Warham was appointed Bishop of London in 1502 and Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor in 1504, crowning Henry VIII in 1509. Though he clashed with Wolsey as the latter’s power and authority increased, the two men worked together on the King’s divorce.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: W.T.Mote

Size 28 x 18 cms

Price £18.00

 

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846

Admiral Sir George Ayscue 1616-1671

Sir George Ayscue was an English naval officer who served in the English Civil War and the Anglo-Dutch Wars who rose to the rank of Admiral of the White. He also served as Governor of Scilly Isles and Governor of Barbados.

Subject gender: Male
Artist: 1661

Size 22 x 16 cms

Price £38.00

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