(24th April 1801 – 18th November 1893) known as Lord Robert Grosvenor from 1831 to 1857
William James Tatem
1st Baron Glanely
(6 March 1868 – 28 June 1942)
A Cardiff ship-owner and thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder.
Joseph Chamberlain
(8th July 1836 – 2nd July 1914)
An influential British businessman, politician, and statesman.
Sydney William Herbert Pierrepont
3rd Earl Manvers
(12th March 1826 – 16th January 1900)
A British nobleman and politician. He built the present Thoresby Hall, St John's Church, Perlethorpe School, and generally shaped Thoresby Estate as it looks today.
Robert Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford
(1701 – 31 March 1751)
Known as the Lord Walpole from 1723 to 1745
The eldest son of Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole
In a painting by Frith, on the other side of the ottoman, facing away from Leighton, the heiress and philanthropist Baroness Burdett-Coutts talks to Lady Diana Huddleston(Beauclerc). Their husbands also appear among the standing figures behind them. Lady Diana, a daughter of the Duke of St Albans, was married to Sir John Walter Huddleston, the last baron of the Exchequer and a judge of Queen's Bench. Wearing a top hat, he stands just behind Robert Browning, the bare-headed and white-bearded figure seen talking to a girl in green. See also and link.
William Powell Frith, R.A. (1819-1909). The Private View, 1881, signed and dated 'W P Frith.1882.' (lower left)
Anglican Bishop of Zanzibar from 1908 until his death 16 years later.
He exercised a heroic ministry in Central Africa during the early years of the 20th century. He died, aged 63, much mourned and widely praised and is believed by many to be a saint.
His online biography, Frank, Bishop of Zanzibar. By H. Maynard Smith.
Charles Anderson Worsley Anderson-Pelham, 2nd Earl of Yarborough
(12th April 1809 – 7th January 1862)
He gave his name to a hand of cards dealt in bridge that has no card higher than a nine: A YARBOROUGH
This is the end of a letter addressed to John Ellis (1789-1862), chairman of the Leicester & Swannington Railway and Midland Railway, and was Member of Parliament for Leicester (1848-1852).
13th Baroness Conyers and 7th Baroness Fauconberg, OBE
(18th October 1863–17th November 1926)
The wife of Charles Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough. There is a memorial to Marcia in All Saints Church, Brocklesby.
Lt.-General Arthur Richard Wellesley
2nd Duke of Wellington KG PC
(3rd February 1807 – 13th August 1884)
He was the son of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
"Imagine what it will be when the Duke of Wellington is announced, and only I walk in the room..the present Duke!"
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Charles Bradlaugh
(26th September 1833 – 30th January 1891)
Member of Pariament for Northampton.
A political activist and one of the most famous English atheists of the 19th century.
He founded the National Secular Society in 1866.
Henry Du Pré Labouchère
(9th November 1831 – 15th January 1912)
A prominent English politician (M.P. for Northampton 1880-1906), journalist, writer, publisher and theatre owner in the Victorian era and Edwardian era. He married actress Henrietta Hodson.
From a photograph by T. Westley
57, Vernon Street, Northampton.
CHARLES BRADLAUGH
AND HENRY LABOUCHERE.
Daniel Lysons
(1762 - 1834)
A notable English antiquary and topographer of the late 18th and early 19th century, who published the four-volume The Environs of London (published 1792 to 1796) and the epic Magna Britannia; Being a Concise Topographical Account of The Several Counties of Great Britian. Written with Samuel Lysons).
Field Marshal Sir John Fox Burgoyne, 1st Baronet (24th July 1782 – 7th October1871)
A senior British Army officer
He was the the illegitimate son of General John Burgoyne, who, on 17 October 1777, had surrendered his entire army, numbering 5,800 to the Americans. This was the greatest victory the colonists had yet gained, and it proved to be the turning point in the war of American independance.
H. L Gates
Wife of General William Gates.
This is a letter dated 2nd April 1846
She has dated it herself, 2nd April 1845, yet there is a note attached stating that
it was written and posted by 'Mrs. Col. William Gates' from Fort Morality
on 3rd October 1845
Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan
1st Baronet of Wallington
(2nd April 1807 – 19th June 1886)
A British civil servant and Governor of Madras.
William Stanley Jevons
(1st September 1835 - 13th August 1882)
Jevons was an English economist and logician. His book The Theory of Political Economy (1871) expounded upon the "final" (marginal) utility theory of value. Jevons' work, along with similar discoveries made by Carl Menger in Vienna (1871) and by Léon Walras in Switzerland (1874), marked the opening of a new period in the history of economic thought. This is an unsigned post card from 13th January 1878.
Charles James Fox
(24th January 1749 – 13th September 1806)
A prominent British Whig statesman.
Maternal great, great grandson of Charles ll.
Three times Foreign Secretary and three times Leader of the House of Commons.
His parliamentary career spanned thirty-eight years of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and who was particularly noted for being the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger. Fox grew into a fat macaroni, with a taste for gambling, politics, and women. He also liked fashion and in the macaroni tastes, powder his hair different colors every day and wear multi-colored shoes embellished with velvet frills. He was just plain outrageous!
Samuel Wilberforce
(7th September 1805 – 19th July 1873)
English Bishop of Oxford in the Church of England, third son of William Wilberforce. He is probably best remembered today for his opposition to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.Known as "Soapy Sam", Wilberforce was one of the greatest public speakers of his day. The nickname derives from a comment by Benjamin Disraeli that the Bishop's manner was "unctuous, oleaginous, saponaceous" (slippery, evasive).
Here is his signature as Bishop 'S Oxon'.
Norman Ernest Borlaug
(25th March 1914 – 12th September 2009)
Borlaug was an American agronomist, humanitarian, and Nobel laureate, and has been called the father of the Green Revolution. Borlaug was one of only five people to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. He was also a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian honor. Borlaug's discoveries have been estimated to have saved over 245 million lives worldwide.
George Alfred Brown
Later George Alfred George-Brown, Baron George-Brown
(2nd September 1914 – 2nd June 1985)
A British politician who served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1960 to 1970, and was a senior Cabinet minister (including as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) in the Labour government of the 1960s.
Samuel Morley
(15th October 1809 – 5th September 1886)
Morley was an English woollen manufacturer, philanthropist,
dissenter (Congregationalist), abolitionist, political radical, and statesman.
Member of Parliament for Nottingham 1865–1866
Member of Parliament for Bristol 1868–1885
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William Workman
(May 1807 – 23rd February 1878)
He was an Irish-born Canadian businessman and municipal politician, becoming Mayor of Montreal from 1868 to 1871.
Glenda May Jackson, CBE
(born 9th May 1936)
An English double Oscar winning actress and politician, Labour Member of Parliament for the constituency of Hampstead and Highgate in the London Borough of Camden.
Lady Charlotte Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, Viscountess Ossington
(1806-1889) Married to John Evelyn Denison 1827.
3rd daughter of the 4th Duke of Portland.
Viscountess Ossington took the surname Scott by Royal Licence in 1882, following her inheritance of part of the Portland estates after the death of her brother the 5th Duke of Portland.
Henry Fox
1st Baron Holland
(28th September 1705 – 1st July 1774)
Secretary for War and Paymaster of the forces, from which he enriched himself, but while widely tipped as a future Prime Minister, he never held that office.
He became a Lord of the Treasury in 1743.
He was the father of Charles James Fox.
Sir Stephen Fox
(27th March 1627 – 28th October 1716)
Fox was an English politician and Commisioner of the Treasury.
Father of Henry and Paternal grandfather of Charles James Fox.
Elizabeth Fry (née Gurney)
(21st May 1780 – 12th October 1845)
An English prison and social reformer.
A Quaker and a Christian philanthropist.
Elizabeth Fry visiting Newgate Prison and reading to the prisoners.1823.
Robert Dundas
2nd Viscount Melville
(14th March 1771 – 10th June 1851)
A British statesman, the son of Henry Dundas, the 1st Viscount. Dundas was the Member of Parliament for Hastings in 1794, Rye in 1796 and Midlothian in 1801. He was also Keeper of the Signet for Scotland from 1800. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1807 and a Knight of the Thistle in 1821, and was Chancellor of the University of St Andrews from 1814. Melville filled various political offices and was First Lord of the Admiralty from 1812 to 1827, and from 1828 to 1830; his eldest son inherited his title.
Sir Francis Windebank
(1582 – 1st September 1646)
An English politician, who rose to become Secretary of State under Charles I.
known as Fox Maule before 1852, as Lord Panmure between 1852 and 1860 and as Earl of Dalhousie after 1860, was a British politician.
He was Christened Fox as a compliment to Charles James Fox, the great Whig politician
Henry Francis Conyngham, Earl of Mount Charles
(6th April 1795 - 26th December 1824)
He was born to Henry Conyngham, 1st Marquess Conyngham and Elizabeth Denison.
He died and was buried in Nice, France unmarried with no issue. He was educated in 1813 at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was styled Earl of Mount Charles from 1816-1824 and was a Tory Member of Parliament for County Donegal between 1818 and 1824.
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto
(16th November 1782 – 31st July 1859)
British diplomat and Whig politician.
Styled as Viscount Melgund between 1813 and 1814.
Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth
(9th April 1757 – 23rd January 1833)
A British naval officer. He fought during the American War of Independence, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic Wars.
Thomas Alexander Fraser, 12th Lord Lovat and 1st Baron Lovat (17th June 1802 – 28th June 1875)
A Scottish peer. He was also the 21st MacShimidh, the traditional Gaelic Patronym for the Chiefs of the Clan Fraser.
Frederick James Lamb
3rd Viscount Melbourne
(17th April 1782 - 29th January 1853)
The Lord Beauvale from 1839 to 1848
George William Frederick Howard
7th Earl of Carlisle
(18th April 1802 – 5th December 1864)
Viscount Morpeth from 1825 to 1848.
A British politician, statesman and orator.
James Duff, 4th Earl Fife
(6th October 1776 – 9th March 1857)
A Scottish nobleman and army general.
He volunteered to help the Spaniards against Napoleon and fought at Talavera as a Major General in the Spanish forces.
The son of Alexander Duff, 3rd Earl Fife and Mary Skene.
Edward "the Bear" Ellice, the elder
(27th September 1783 – 17th September 1863)
A British merchant and politician.
He was a Director of the Hudson's Bay Company and a prime mover behind the Reform Bill of 1832.
Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth
(18th December 1790 – 26th July 1868)
A British lawyer and Liberal politician. He twice served as Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom
Sir Archibald John Primrose
4th Earl of Rosebery
(14th October 1783 – 4th March 1868)
A British Member of Parliament.
On the right is an example of a recent sale item
Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington and Baron Carington of Upton
(born 6th June 1919)
A British Conservative politician. He served as British Foreign Secretary between 1979 and 1982 and as Secretary-General of NATO from 1984 to 1988. He is the last person to have held one of the four Great Offices of State while a peer. He is also the last surviving member of the Cabinet of Alec Douglas Home.
Cecil Edward Parkinson, Baron Parkinson
(born 1st September 1931 in Carnforth, Lancashire) A British Conservative politician and former Cabinet Minister.
In 1983 Margaret Thatcher's Trade Secretary, Cecil Parkinson, was forced to resign after his secretary, Sara Keays, revealed her pregnancy with his illegitimate child as the result of a 12-year affair. Parkinson later won a court injunction forbidding anyone, including Sara, from speaking of his daughter, Flora, publicly - or doing almost anything that could lead to her identity being revealed. Since when it has emerged that aged 4, Flora was left with severe disabilities after an operation to remove a brain tumour, and suffers from Asperger's Syndrome.
Lord (William) George Frederick Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck (27th February 1802 – 21st September 1848)
Better known as simply Lord George Bentinck, was an English Conservative politician and racehorse owner, best known (with Benjamin Disraeli) for his role in unseating Sir Robert Peel over the Corn Laws.
He was the son of Henry Venables-Vernon, 3rd Baron Vernon and Elizabeth Rebecca Anne Sedley. He married Frances Maria Warren, daughter of Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren, 1st Bt., on 5th August 1802.
The Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh
(25th April 1776 – 30th April 1857)
A Princessr of the British Royal Family, the eleventh child and fourth daughter of George III.
Married to Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, and was the longest living child of King George III.
(Above) An example of a similar envelope written by Princess Mary which was recently offered for sale, although her signature is missing
John Enoch Powell, MBE
16th June 1912 – 8th February 1998)
A British politician, linguist, writer, academic, soldier and poet.
Powell was a Conservative Party Member of Parliament between 1950 and February 1974, and an Ulster Unionist MP between October 1974 and 1987. He was controversial through most of his career, and his tenure in senior office was brief. He had strong and distinctive views on matters such as immigration, national identity, monetary policy, and the United Kingdom's entry into the European Economic Community, which later became the European Union. He was dismissed from the Shadow Cabinet for his controversial and widely Remembered for his 1968 "Rivers of Blood" speech in opposition to mass Commonwealth immigration to Britain.
You Tubeand text. WARNING: some may find the material contained in the speech and the remarks left on You Tube DEEPLY offensive.
John Jeffreys Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden
(11th February 1759 – 8th October 1840)
Teller of the Exchequer 1766–1834
Styled Viscount Bayham from 1786 to 1794 and known as The Earl Camden from 1794 to 1812, was a British politician. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland between 1795 and 1798 and as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies between 1804 and 1805.
Reverend Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth FSA
(19th September 1824 – 7th June 1908)
Literary editor and artist; cleric, vicar of Molash, Kent; Editor of the Ballad Society's publications
This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography. engraver, lithographer and wood engraver of Edinburgh. Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "J. W. E.". He collected and edited English ballads and poetry. His publications include The Roxburghe Ballads and the Westminster Drolleries of 1671 and 1672. The collection consists of holograph letters signed from various persons to the Reverend Ebsworth of Edinburgh and holograph notes by Ebsworth on ballads and religious subjects. studied under Sir William Allan and David Cott. He was appointed Artistic Director at the Institute of Lithography in Manchester. He later became Professor at Glasgow School of Art.He painted four views from the Scott Monument between 1845 and 1847, all of which were presented to the City of Edinburgh Council / City Art Centre by J. Collins Francis in 1910.
(born March 31, 1920, Asthall Manor, Oxfordshire, England)
née The Hon. Deborah Freeman-Mitford and known to her family as "Debo", is the youngest and last surviving of the six noted Mitford sisters whose political affiliations and marriages were a prominent feature of English culture in the 1930s and 1940s.
The other five Mitford sisters in 1935: Jessica, Nancy, Diana, Unity, and Pamela
Unity and Diana: "So Very Nice, and So Very Nazi"
Unity Mitford (left) and Lady Diana Mosley (nee Mitford, right),
with SS troops at the September 1937 Nuremberg Nazi Party rally
Adolf Hitler called the tall beautiful enthusiastic fascist blond Diana "the perfect Aryan woman".
'Debo's' wedding to the Duke in 1941
Deborah, the duchess of Devonshire. Today she still has the telltale ramrod posture, English rose complexion, and, of course, the dog hairs on her Scottish cashmeres. Youngest of the six famous (often notorious) Mitford sisters, Debo's marriage to the 11th Duke of Devonshire put her squarely into the social whirl, and for a few years she gamely did the cocktails-and-ball-gown circuit. But her heart lay more with family, farm, and the demands of Chatsworth, her husband's grand ancestral estate, where she knocks about the legendary gardens and stables in a Balmain couture raincoat and, often, in the company of her granddaughter, the lanky supermodel Stella Tennant. Must be something in the genes.
Debo in 1951
Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet
(29th December 1792 – 23rd May 1867)
A British lawyer, who held several prominent legal appointments, historian and baronet.
An English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy, and there are societies dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life in many parts of the world including the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand.
William George Spencer Cavendish
6th Duke of Devonshire
Styled Marquess of Hartington until 1811
(21st May 1790 – 18th January 1858)
He a British peer, courtier and Whig politician. Known as the "Bachelor Duke", he was Lord Chamberlain of the Household between 1827 and 1828 and again between 1830 and 1834.
He drew many topical cartoons and caricatures for Punch in the late 19th century, including the iconic dropping the pilot, but is best remembered today for his illustrations in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
This is his handwiriting from an unsigned note written from Portadown Road, London
Here is an example of Tenniel's handwriting from a signed letter which does not form part of this collection and is for comparison only
