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Born December 7, 1812 • London • England
Died December 29, 1897 (aged 85) • New Haven • Connecticut
Subjects Of Study printmaking • wood engraving
Role In Chartism
Lovett, detail of an engraving
William Lovett
British politician
John Frost, engraving by W. Read after a painting.
John Frost
British social reformer
Feargus O'Connor, detail of an engraving
Feargus Edward O’Connor
Irish leader
O'Brien, James Bronterre
James Bronterre O’Brien
British radical
Charles James Fox
Charles James Fox
British politician
Cobbett, detail of a painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Cobbett
British journalist
Bright, John
John Bright
British politician
Frank Holl: Joseph Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlain
British politician and social reformer
Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth, 2nd Baronet
Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Baronet
British statesman
Michael Thomas Sadler
Michael Thomas Sadler
British politician
Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope, pastel drawing by Ozias Humphry, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope
British politician and scientist
Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet
British politician
Henry Hunt
Henry Hunt
British politician
Fielden, detail of an engraving by Henry Cousins after a painting by John Bostock, 19th century
John Fielden
British social reformer
Samuel Bamford
English social reformer and author
Joseph Hume, detail of a portrait by J.W. Walton, 1854; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Joseph Hume
British politician
Frederick Arthur, Lord Stanley of Preston
Canadian governor-general
Sidney Webb
British economist
Beatrice Webb
British economist
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom