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Cover Barry, James (c. 1799–1865)

Barry, James (c. 1799–1865)  

Maker: unknown photographer

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004
James Barry (c. 1799–1865) by unknown photographer, c. 1860 [left, with a servant] Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum

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Barry, James (c. 1799–1865), army medical officer and transvestite  

Sydney Brandon

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Barry, James (c. 1799–1865), army medical officer and transvestite, was probably born Margaret, the youngest daughter of Mrs Mary Ann Bulkley or Bulkeley, the sister of the artist James Barry; her paternity is in doubt. From the age of ten she dressed and presented herself as a man, but the woman who laid out her corpse declared that she was female: '...

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Christison, Sir (Alexander Frank) Philip, fourth baronet (1893–1993)  

Maker: Vandyk

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004
Sir (Alexander Frank) Philip Christison, fourth baronet (1893–1993) by Vandyk, 1948 © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Christison, Sir (Alexander Frank) Philip, fourth baronet (1893–1993), army officer  

Alberic Stacpoole

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Christison, Sir (Alexander Frank) Philip, fourth baronet (1893–1993), army officer, was born at 40 Moray Place, Edinburgh, on 17 November 1893, the elder of the two sons and eldest of five children of Sir Alexander Christison, second baronet (1828–1918), surgeon-general in the Bengal...

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Cover Crawford, John (1775–1831)

Crawford, John (1775–1831)  

Maker: D. Orme

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28 September 2006
John Crawford (1775–1831) by D. Orme, pubd 1797 © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Crawford, John [Jack] (1775–1831), sailor and naval hero  

Keith Gregson

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28 September 2006

Crawford, John [Jack] (1775–1831), sailor and naval hero, was born on 22 March 1775 at a house on Thornhill Bank in the east end of Sunderland, co. Durham, the son of a keelman. At an early age Crawford also worked on the keelboats that carried coal on the ...

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Greville, Algernon Frederick (1798–1864), army officer and private secretary  

Gordon Goodwin

revised by James Falkner

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Greville, Algernon Frederick (1798–1864), army officer and private secretary, was born on 29 January 1798, the second son of Charles Greville (1762–1832), fifth son of Fulke Greville of Wilbury, Wiltshire, and his wife, Lady Charlotte (d. 28 July 1862), eldest daughter of ...

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Cover Pitt, Thomas, second Baron Camelford (1775–1804)

Pitt, Thomas, second Baron Camelford (1775–1804)  

Maker: unknown engraver

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004
Thomas Pitt, second Baron Camelford (1775–1804) by unknown engraver (after C. Bond) © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Pitt, Thomas, second Baron Camelford (1775–1804), naval officer and rake  

Miles D. Barton

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Pitt, Thomas, second Baron Camelford (1775–1804), naval officer and rake, was born on 19 February 1775 at Boconnoc House, Cornwall, the younger of two children of Thomas Pitt, first Baron Camelford (1737–1793), landowner and politician, and Anne (1738–1803), daughter of Pinckney Wilkinson, London...

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Wallis, Sir Provo William Parry (1791–1892), naval officer  

J. K. Laughton

revised by Andrew Lambert

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Wallis, Sir Provo William Parry (1791–1892), naval officer, only son of Provo Featherstone Wallis, chief clerk to the naval commissioner at Halifax, Nova Scotia, was born at Halifax on 12 April 1791. His mother was a daughter of William Lawlor, major in the ...