Images Dated 9th August 2022

First Powered Airship - British Army Dirigible No 1
The new British lead military airship Dirigible No 1, christened Nulli Secundus, made its maiden ascent at Farnborough

Teaching Mothers to Care for their Infants 1907
In a parish in St. Pancras, Battersea, poor mothers being taught how to care for their infants. Date: 1907

Effigy of Mary, Countess of Buckingham, c.1570-1632. Second wife of Sir George Villiers, c. 1544-1606. In veil, coronet, ruff collar, ermine-lined robe. Mislabeled Elizabeth, Countess of Buckingham

Claud Hamilton, 1st Lord Paisley, 1546-1621
Claud Hamilton, 1st Lord Paisley, Scottish politician, 1546-1621. Commander of Paisley Abbey, fought for Mary Queen of Scots at the Battle of Langside, 1568

Sir George Villiers, English knight, 1544-1606
Sir George Villiers, English knight, country gentleman, court of Queen Elizabeth I, 1544-1606

Sir Robert Shirley in Persian costume
Sir Robert Shirley, English traveller and adventurer, c.1581-1628. Younger brother of Sir Anthony Shirley and Sir Thomas Shirley. Notable for his help modernising the Persian Safavid army

Lady Mary Sidney, mother of Sir Philip Sidney
Lady Mary Sidney, lady-in-waiting at the court of Queen Elizabeth I, wife of Sir Henry Sidney, mother of Sir Philip Sidney and Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, c. 1530-1586

Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland, 1529-1586
Sir Henry Sidney, Knight of the Garter, Lord Deputy of Ireland, 1529-1586. Courtier to King Edward VI, Queen Mary I and Queen Elizabeth I

John Ashburnham, English diplomat and politician, 1603-1671
John Ashburnham, English courtier, diplomat, royalist and politician, 1603-1671. Groom of the bedchamber to Charles I and Charles II after the Restoration. In plain collar over suit of plate armour

George Griffith, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1601-1666. Welsh academic educated at Westminster School, later tutor and preacher at Christ Church, Oxford. In cap, ecclesiastical robes

Frances, Lady Seymour of Throwbridge, died 1626. Wife of Francis Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge. In wide lace collar, low-cut bodice, embroidered gown

Francis Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge, c. 1590-1664. English politician and Royalist, knighted by King Charles I and later privy counsellor to Charles II after the Restoration

Henry Percy, Baron Percy of Alnwick, died 1659. Sat in the Short Parliament as the member for Portsmouth and in the Long Parliament as MP for Northumberland

Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham
Oval portrait of Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham, c.1613-1666

John Poulett, 1st Baron Poulett, 1585-1649. English MP and later Royalist cavalier soldier who fought at the Siege of Lyme Regis in 1644

William Platt Esq. English philanthropist, died 1637
William Platt Esq. (died 1637), barrister of Lincoln's Inn, London, who left his London house, library, and money for scholarships to St John's College, Cambridge

Photograph showing the signalman in the act of pulling a signal lever to allow a train to enter one of the platforms. Date: 1907

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