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 ...

Sir Arthur Ralph Wilmot, 7th Bt (1909-1942), Soldier. Sitter in 10 portraits. Pamela Vera (née Garrard), Lady Wilmot (later Cathcart) (1910-1987), Former wife of Sir Arthur Ralph Wilmot, 7th Bt, and ...

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Photographer Zoë Law’s Legends series celebrates over one hundred individuals from the worlds of art, fashion, business and entertainment. From World Cup-winning footballer, Sir Bobby Charlton, to the ...

Lieutenant-General. Commander during the early stages of the Peninsular War, 1808, he was cut off from Portugal by the French and obliged to make a forced march to the coast at Corunna to embark his ...

The first Protestant missionary to China. He translated the Bible into Chinese in 1823, and also published a Dictionary of the Chinese Language, the standard reference work for many years. He met with ...

The Reference Collection is held in the Heinz Archive and Library and contains more than 70,000 portraits of important and lesser known figures in British history. The majority of these portraits are ...

Sir Henry Hobart was an English judge and politician. He trained in the law and was called to the Bar in 1584. Hobart entered Parliament as an MP in 1588. Hobart was Steward of Norwich in 1595, made ...

Italian-born Belzoni moved to England in 1803 where he found work for a time as a strongman, actor and conjuror at fairs and theatres around the country. He travelled to Egypt having persuaded Mehmet ...

Hurricane-force winds batter southern England, blowing-down trees, and damaging buildings, blocking roads and causing 19 deaths. The storm was not predicted by the Met Office, a fact that is often ...

Nobel Prize-winning poet and educationalist, Tagore achieved early success as a writer in his native Bengal, and worldwide fame through translations of his work. In addition to fifty volumes of poetry ...

Painter and printmaker. Aitchison studied law at Edinburgh and London's Middle Temple before becoming an artist. He started painting in 1950, and in 1952 went on to study at the Slade School of Art, ...