Resigned Collection

Defence of Chateau de Hougoumont - Battle of Waterloo
Defence of the Chateau de Hougoumont by the flank company, Coldstream GuardsWatercolour by Denis Dighton, 1815Associated with Napoleonic Wars

Attack on the British Squares by French Cavalry, Waterloo
Attack on the British Squares by French Cavalry, Battle of Waterloo, 1815.Watercolour by Denis Dighton, 1815. Associated with the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleonic Wars

Fighting at the Barricades; Paris Commune 1871
A bowed but resigned officer caught behind the lines, in effect Between two fires, during fighting between the French Army and the Paris Commune, 1871

Winston Churchill with Kaiser Wilhelm II
Photograph entitled Deadly Enemies Now! showing Winston Churchill at German army manoeuvres with the Kaiser, prior to the outbreak of World War One. Date: c. 1910

Abdication of King Edward VIII in 1936
King Edward VIII of Britain (1894 - 1972), who resigned from 20 January to 11 December 1936, when he abdicated. " King Edward VIII

Henry Gordon-Lennox
Lord HENRY CHARLES GEORGE GORDON-LENNOX : conservative statesman and minister under Disraeli, resigned though innocent because of the Lisbon Tramways scandal. Date: 1821 - 1886

Nicholas Biddle
NICHOLAS BIDDLE American financier, president of Bank of the United States, involved in political controversy, resigned & wrote a history of Lewis & Clark. Date: 1786 - 1844

Marie-Louise (Heath)
MARIE-LOUISE OF AUSTRIA second empress of Napoleon I wearing tiara, a double- necklace and a resigned expression. Date: 1791 - 1847

Sir Winston Churchill on the front cover of The Sketch
Cover of The Sketch featuring Winston Churchill who had recently resigned as Prime Minister. Date: 1955

The Right Hon. Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), who resigned from his seat in the Cabinet by letter to Mr Asquith on 11th November 1915. Date: 1915

Cartoon, Integrity retiring from Office! by James Gillray. The outgoing Tory government ministers, led by William Pitt, leave through the Treasury arch

Asquith, Herbert Henry, 1st Earl Of Oxford And Asquith (1852-1928). Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916. United Kingdom (1914)

Col R W Schumacher, Transvaal Boy Scouts Association
Illuminated address presented to Colonel R W Schumacher, Commissioner, Transvaal Boy Scouts Association, South Africa, on the occasion of his resignation

Incomings and outgoings on the outbreak of WW1
Incomings and outgoings on the outbreak of the First World War. Top left: Earl Roberts, walking to the House of Commons. Top right: Viscount Morley

Theophilus Lindsey
THEOPHILUS LINDSEY English unitarian churchman who resigned his living because he objected to the Book of Common Prayer. Date: 1723 - 1808

Miss B. Voyce, a long-standing member of RAeS staff who ?
Miss B. Voyce, a long-standing member of RAeS staff who had resigned in 1956, left, is presented with her certificate of Honorary Companionship by Sir George Edwards

Jobs Resignation after receiving the successive blows of unprecedented calamities. circa early 18th century

Charles Bois-Hardy
CHARLES BOIS-HARDY French naval officer who resigned when the Revolution came, took part in royalist counter-plots and was shot in an attack on his home. Date: ? - 1795

Musical lovers in a boat
Being stranded in a boat on the river, this poor woman can find no escape from her lovers musical offering so she sits back resigned to an afternoon of violin playing

Sir Albert de Rutzen (1831-1913), Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, at the time of his resignation, not long before he died

The Miracle of Purun Bhagat; Dewan Sir Purun Dass at a shrin
Illustration showing The Miracle of Purun Bhagat ; Dewan Sir Purun Dass, K.C.I.E. having resigned his power, position and palace, sitting as a Sunnyasi (Holy Man)

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