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Portraits of explorers and notable people |
James Tolmie
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Richard Cobden Dunford, Sussex 1804 - West Lavington, West Sussex 1865 British manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman; M.P. for West Yorkshire (Wikipedia). |
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Sir Titus Salt Morley, near Leeds 1803 - Lightcliffe, near Halifax 1876 manufacturer, politician and philanthropist; Liberal M.P. and Mayor of Bradford, 1848-1849 (Wikipedia). |
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Robert Stephenson Willington Quay, Wallsend, Northumberland 1803 - London 1859 English civil engineer, inventor of the Rocket locomotive (Wikipedia). |
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James Watt Greenock, Renfrewshire 1736 - Handsworth, Birmingham 1819 Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world (Wikipedia). |
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Richard Arkwright Preston, Lancashire 1732 - Cromford, Derbyshire 1792 inventor of water powered spinning machines. (Wikipedia). |
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Samuel Cunliffe Lister, First Baron Masham of Swinton Calverley Old Hall, Yorkshire 1815 - Swinton Park, Yorkshire 1906 Bradford M.P., inventor, Manningham Mills owner and benefactor of Cartwright Hall Museum and Art Gallery. (Wikipedia). |
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William Ewart Gladstone Liverpool 1809 - Hawarden 1898 British Liberal Party statesman and four times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1868-74, 1880-85, 1886 and 1892-94). (Wikipedia). |
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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Westminster 1784 - Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire 1865 Known as Lord Palmerston, British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister, 1855-Febr. 1858 and June 1859-1865. He laid the foundation stone of this Wool Exchange. (Wikipedia). |
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James Cook Marton, Yorkshire 1728 - Hawaï 1779 British explorer, navigator and cartographer, famous because of his three voyages to the Pacific Ocean. (Wikipedia). |
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George Anson, 1st Baron Anson Staffordshire 1697 - Moor Park, Hertfordshire 1762 British admiral and a wealthy aristocrat, noted for his circumnavigation of the globe and his role overseeing the Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War. (Wikipedia). |
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Sir Walter Raleigh Devon c. 1554 - London 1618 English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer. (Wikipedia). |
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Sir Francis Drake Tavistock, Devon, 1540 - Portobelo, Panama, 1596 British sea captain and vice admiral. (Wikipedia). |
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Christopher Columbus (Italian: Cristoforo Colombo; Spanish: Cristóbal Colón) Cogoleto? bef. 1451 - Valladolid 1506 explorer, colonizer, and navigator. (Wikipedia). |
NB. The description of the Wool Exchange in the British Listed Buildings site has a different identification of the portraits. Nr. 6, Lister, is according to that list a portrait of the French weaver and merchant Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834); the five at Bank Street (no. 9-13) are there Raleigh, Drake, Columbus, Cook and Anson respectively. Comparison with other portraits shows that the above identification - taken from the Sculpture trail - is correct. Only the portrait of Columbus shows no resemblance to any of his known portraits.
The head doesn't look like Columbus at all.
Item Code: gbyh001; Photograph: 4 September 2002 / Updated: 31 July 2012
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