English Collection (page 10)

Henry Newbolt / Morgan
SIR HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT English poet and man of letters

Raleigh / Potatoes / Ireland
SIR WALTER RALEIGH English navigator supervising the first planting of potatoes in Ireland

Christmas Snowballs 1939
Girls snowballing in Brockwell Park, near Herne Hill, south London, during the first Christmas of World War Two

Riding Dress Anglaise
English riding habit with Amazon corsage. Quite severe in its tailoring & worn with a top hat & buttonhole the only feminine note is the rider sitting side saddle

WILLIAM BYRD 1543 - 1623
WILLIAM BYRD English organist and composer, a pupil of Tallis. He is shown here conducting one of his compositions, which is being sung by Elizabethan courtiers

Girl Picks Flowers C1887
A girl picks some rather wild flowers growing in a country garden

Rupert Brooke
RUPERT BROOKE English writer, in 1913

Ws Gilbert / Sambourne
WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT English playwright and collaborator with Sullivan, satirised for his love of the sea and sailing

English Prayer Book
THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER An Ordre for Mattyns - a page from the first book of Common Prayer in English, published under Edward VI

Samuel Johnson / Oxford
DR SAMUEL JOHNSON English writers room over Pembroke College Gateway in Oxford, where he studied

Tyldesley / Cricketer
J L Tyldesley, English cricketer who achieved 46 centuries in 11 years

Larwood / Cricketer
Harold Larwood, English cricketer, famous for his Bodyline bowling (1904-95)

Jack Hobbs (Sir John Berry Hobbs), English cricketer (1882-1963)

Jack Hobbs / Cricketer
Jack Hobbs (Sir John Berry Hobbs), English cricketer (1882-1963)

Edward I / Cig Card
EDWARD I (LONGSHANKS) King of England (1272-1307)

John Wilkes
JOHN WILKES (1725 - 1797) English politician and reformer

Horace Walpole / Smith 10
HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE 4TH EARL OF ORFORD English man of letters at the age of ten

Catherine of Braganza
CATHERINE OF BRAGANZA Queen of Charles II Her seal and signature are also shown here

Robert Southwell / Anon
ROBERT SOUTHWELL English poet and Jesuit martyr

Mytton / Short Cut Home
The seat of John Mytton (1796- 1834), the eccentric English squire of Halston, Shropshire. The view is from the back showing a circular garden and extensive parkland. Date: 1820s

Somerset Maugham / Cig
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM English novelist and short story writer, in 1936

William Lilly (Freeman)
William Lilly, English astrologer

Fall / English Springer / 46
Four large puppies crowded in a basket. Owner: Browne

John Bunyan / In Prison
JOHN BUNYAN English preacher and writer, writing in prison

Battle of Cluys / Froissar
At the battle of SLUYS, the English fleet of 200 totally defeats the French fleet of 70, capturing or destroying virtually every vessel

West India Docks 1810
The West India Docks in the great age of English trade - vessels lining the quays as far as the eye can see. Imports from the West Indies were especially important

Tudor Chimneys
Some fine Tudor chimneys at Bramhall Hall, Cheshire, England

Battle of Naseby
THE BATTLE OF NASEBY The Royalist army is defeated by the larger Parliamentarian forces at the decisive Battle of Naseby

Strawberry Pickers
A boy and a man picking strawberries in a field, with punnets strapped to their backs, on a farm near Cheddar, Somerset, England

Australian Team of 1882
The Austalian cricket team of 1882 who beat the English in the first Ashes series, captained by W. L. Murdoch

Wild Cattle
Bewick depicts two kinds of English wild cattle. Above is the Chillingham sort, of which he will later make one of his finest engravings. Both are rare even in his day

Ernest William Hornung
ERNEST WILLIAM HORNUNG English writer, creator of Raffles, the gentleman burglar

P G Wodehouse
English writer, Sir Pelham Grenville WODEHOUSE (1881-1975)

John Ruskin / Photo / Desk
JOHN RUSKIN English art critic and writer Photograph sitting at his desk

Sir William Blackstone
SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE English jurist

William Dampier
WILLIAM DAMPIER English buccaneer and explorer

Bleriot crosses the Channel
First air crossing of the English Channel by Louis Bleriot : over the open sea

Joan of Arc at the fortress of Tourelles, Orleans, France
Joan of Arc at the English fortress of Les Tourelles, during the Siege of Orleans, France, 7 May 1429. 1429

Tim Brooke-Taylor and Caroline Ellis
Tim Brooke-Taylor (1940-2020), English comic actor, pictured with British actress Caroline Ellis (1950-)

Draycott, Cotswold village, Blockley Station, on the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway, viewed from the south-east. Date: circa 1917

John Devey, footballer and cricketer
John Henry George Jack Devey (1866-1940), footballer for West Bromwich Albion, Mitchells St George s, Aston Villa and England, and a first-class cricketer for Warwickshire. 1890s

Illustrated London News Silver Jubilee Number 1935
Front cover of The Illustrated London News conjuring up the pomp and pageantry of the Silver Jubilee celebrations of King George V with a parade of liveried riders

Wedgwood Jasperware covered jug
Old English Pottery and Porcelain - Wedgwood Jasper Ware. A beautical covered jug - exemplifying the Wedgwood blue colour. The nymphs and cupids, applied in white relief, are highly finished

Locomotion at Darlington Railway Station early 1900s

Bamforth's Studio at Holmfirth - early 1900s

James Bamforth painting a backdrop at Bamforth's Studio in Holmfirth - early 1900s

The Sands, Thorpeness, Suffolk - Painted by artist Charles Howard for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Newlyn Harbour and Penzance, Cornwall - Painted by artist Frank E Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

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