Henry Charles Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort, KG, styled Marquess of Worcester until 1803, was a British politician.
Engraved by T.A.Dean 1847
Painted by Thomas Philips
Size 28 x 22 cm
Price £14.00
Ref:3310
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William Pitt Amherst 1773-1857
William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, GCH, PC was a British diplomat and colonial administrator. He was Governor-General of India between 1823 and 1828.
Engraved by S.Freeman 1846
Painted by Thomas Lawrence
Size 28 x 22 cm
Price £14.00
Ref:3312
George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster 1794-1842
George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster GCH PC FRS FRAS, was an English peer and Major General.
Engraved by W.H.Cooke 1846
Painted by James Atkinson
Size 28 x 22 cm
Price £14.00
Ref:3316
Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield 1634-1714
He was the son of Henry Stanhope, Lord Stanhope and his wife, Katherine Wotton. He inherited the title of Earl of Chesterfield on the death of his grandfather in 1656. He was educated by Poliander, Professor of Divinity at Leyden (1640) and at the Prince of Orange’s College at Breda. In 1669 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Civil Laws by the University of Oxford.
Artist/Engraver E.Bocquet after S.Harding 1808
Size 19 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3651
John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby 1648-1721
English poet and Tory politician of the late Stuart period who served as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council. He was also known by his original title, Lord Mulgrave.
Artist/Engraver: Finden after Thurston 1822
Size 25 x 16 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3650
William Shakespeare 1564-1616
William Shakespeare was buried in 1616 in his home town of Stratford-Upon-Avon, but in 1740 a monument was placed to Shakespeare in Poets’ Corner Westminster Abbey, London
Artist: J.Bell British Library Strand Jan 12 1787
Date:
Size 7.5 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2873
James III of Scotland 1451-1488
King of Scots from 1460 until his death at the Battle of Sauchieburn in 1488. He inherited the throne as a child following the death of his father, King James II, at the siege of Roxburgh Castle. James III’s reign began with a minority that lasted almost a decade, during which Scotland was governed by a series of regents and factions who struggled for possession of the young king, before his personal rule began in 1469.
Artist/Engraver
Size 28 x 22 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3640
Thomas Larkham or Larcome 1602–1669
He was born at Lyme Regis, Dorset, in 1602, matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1619, and proceeded B.A. from Trinity Hall in 1622, and M.A. 1626. In 1622 he was living at Shobrooke, near Crediton, where he married. He was instituted vicar of Northam, near Bideford, in 1626, where his puritan views brought him into trouble. A petition against him was delivered about 1639, and he was proceeded against in the Consistory Court at Exeter. In 1640 Larkham left with his family for New England, going first to Massachusetts, but moved on to Dover called also then Northam.
Artist/Engraver
Size 26 x 20 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:3639
Katherine Mary Lane Fox 1813-1873
Katherine Mary wife of George Lane Fox 1816-1896, JP, DL, ‘the Squire’, of Bramham Park. Daughter of John Stein, Member of Parliament for Bletchingley, by his wife Grace Bushy
Artist/Engraver Thomson after Mrs.Mee
Size 28 x 19 cms
Price £16.00
Ref:3632
Thomas Babington Macaulay 1800-1859
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PC, FRS, FRSE was a British historian and Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster General between 1846 and 1848.
Artist/Engraver: Weigel
Size 24 x 18 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3643