William Sharman Crawford (1781–1861) by John Prescott Knight, exh. RA 1843 photograph © Ulster Museum. Photograph reproduced with the kind permission of the Trustees of the National Museums & Galleries of Northern Ireland
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Crawford, William Sharman (1781–1861)
Maker: John Prescott Knight
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Crawford, William Sharman (1781–1861), politician and landlord in Ireland
Sidney Lee
revised by Alan O'Day
Crawford, William Sharman (1781–1861), politician and landlord in Ireland, was the eldest son of William Sharman (d. 1803), of Moira Castle, co. Down, a protestant landowner, MP for Lisburn (1783–90), and colonel of a union regiment of volunteers. His mother was Arminella...
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Hope, George (1811–1876), agriculturist
Anita McConnell
Hope, George (1811–1876), agriculturist, was born on 2 January 1811 at West Fenton, East Lothian, the second of the seven sons and a daughter of Robert Hope (d. 1852), tenant farmer, and his second wife, Christian, née Bogue, daughter of a farmer of ...
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Jones, Kathleen Letitia Lloyd (1898–1978), garden designer and nurserywoman
Rachel Berger
Jones, Kathleen Letitia Lloyd (1898–1978), garden designer and nurserywoman, was born on 4 June 1898 at Rotherslade House at Oystermouth on the Gower peninsula in Glamorgan. Known as Kitty, she was the ninth of the ten children of Arthur Lloyd Jones (1853–1932), a physician and surgeon, and his wife, ...
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Jones, Kathleen Letitia Lloyd (1898–1978)
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Kathleen Letitia Lloyd Jones (1898–1978) by unknown photographer, 1920s private collection
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Mantell, Joshua (1795–1865), surgeon and horticulturist
Dennis R. Dean
Mantell, Joshua (1795–1865), surgeon and horticulturist, was born on 3 November 1795 at St Mary's Lane, Lewes, the fourth son of Thomas Mantell (1750–1807), shoemaker, and his wife, Sarah Austen (1755–1828). Gideon Algernon Mantell was an elder brother. Though hunchbacked and desultory, Mantell...
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McLaren [née Pochin], Laura Elizabeth, Lady Aberconway (1854–1933), campaigner for women's rights and horticulturist
Elizabeth Crawford
McLaren [née Pochin], Laura Elizabeth, Lady Aberconway (1854–1933), campaigner for women's rights and horticulturist, was born at Camp Street, Broughton, Lancashire, on 14 May 1854, the only surviving daughter of Henry Davis Pochin (1824–1895), industrial chemist and MP, and his wife, Agnes Pochin, ...
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McLaren, Laura Elizabeth, Lady Aberconway (1854–1933)
Maker: James Tissot
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Laura Elizabeth McLaren, Lady Aberconway (1854–1933) by James Tissot, 1878 Collection of Lord Aberconway
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Milnes, Robert Pemberton (1784–1858)
See Milnes, Richard Monckton, first Baron Houghton
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Paget, John (1808–1892), agriculturist and writer on Hungary
Lóránt Czigány
Paget, John (1808–1892), agriculturist and writer on Hungary, was born on 18 April 1808 at Loughborough, Leicestershire, the eldest of the three children of John Paget (1773–1833), manufacturer, and his wife, Anne (1789–1811), daughter of John Hunt, surgeon. His father, a pillar of the ...
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Potter [married name Heelis], (Helen) Beatrix (1866–1943), artist, children's writer, and sheep breeder
Judy Taylor
Potter [married name Heelis], (Helen) Beatrix (1866–1943), artist, children's writer, and sheep breeder, was born on 28 July 1866 at 2 Bolton Gardens, South Kensington, London, the elder child and only daughter of Rupert William Potter (1832–1914), a lawyer specializing as equity draftsman and conveyancer until he inherited a large fortune in 1883. A close friend of ...
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Potter, (Helen) Beatrix (1866–1943)
Maker: Delmar Banner
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(Helen) Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) by Delmar Banner, 1938 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Rowan, Archibald Hamilton (1751–1834)
Maker: R. Cooper
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Archibald Hamilton Rowan (1751–1834) by R. Cooper, pubd 1825 (after John Comerford, 1822) © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Rowan, Archibald Hamilton (1751–1834), Irish nationalist and landowner
Liam Chambers
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton (1751–1834), Irish nationalist and landowner, was born Archibald Hamilton on 1 May 1751 at Rathbone Place, London, the elder of two children of Gawen Hamilton (1729–1805), political reformer and landowner, of Killyleagh Castle, co. Down, and his wife, Jane (...
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Solly, Edward (1819–1886), chemist, agronomist, and antiquary
G. A. J. Cole
revised by V. E. Chancellor
Solly, Edward (1819–1886), chemist, agronomist, and antiquary, was born in London, on 11 October 1819, the son of Edward Solly (c.1790–c.1847), a wealthy Baltic timber merchant of Berlin and St Mary Axe, London. Sarah Solly, who made a significant bequest to the ...
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Sutton, John (bap. 1777, d. 1863)
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John Sutton (bap. 1777, d. 1863) by unknown photographer Suttons Consumer Products, Paignton, Devon
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Sutton, John (bap. 1777, d. 1863), corn dealer and seedsman
T. A. B. Corley
Sutton, John (bap. 1777, d. 1863), corn dealer and seedsman, was baptized at St Mary Somerset, London, on 1 June 1777, the fourth son in a family of six sons and four daughters of James Sutton (1744–1789), partner in Sutton and Winckworth, flour factors, and his wife, ...
