Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)

Sir Jp Corry Bt Mp; a Temperate Ulster Man. Issue 967. (First Edition Before the Bound Volumes. )

London: Vanity Fair, 1887. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm (15.75 x 10.6 inches). Very Good. Minor toning in margins and wear on edges, not affecting image. Dated 14 May 1887. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Sir James Porter Corry, 1st Baronet (8 September 1826 - 28 November 1891) was an Irish politician. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) from 1874 to 1885 and an Irish Unionist Alliance MP from 1886 until his death. Sir James was the son of Robert Corry, of Turnagardy, Newtownards, Co. Down, a quarry owner and Belfast timber merchant. Educated at the Royal Belfast Academic Institution, he entered the family timber firm, which was at that time occupied with building the growing industrial port of Belfast. He was first elected to Parliament for the Irish constituency of Belfast in the 1874 general election. The constituency was abolished for the 1885 general election. On 15 September 1885 he was created a baronet, of Dunraven, Antrim. On 1 February 1886 he became the MP for Mid Armagh in a by-election following the death of John McKane. In July 1886, he joined the Irish Unionist Alliance and stood for subsequent elections for this party. He died, in office, in 1891 at his home, Dunraven on Belfast's Malone Road, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, William. .

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Book number: 18-1322

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Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)

Sir Fg Milner Bt Mp; York. Issue 869. (First Edition Before the Bound Volumes. )

London: Vanity Fair, 1885. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm (15.75 x 10.6 inches). Good. Foxing along top edge, minor loss on top left corner and half inch tear in bottom edge, not affecting image. Dated 27 Jun 1885. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Sir Frederick George Milner, 7th Baronet, GCVO PC (7 November 1849 - 8 June 1931) was a British Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1883 to 1885, from 1890 to 1906. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he was elected as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for York at a by-election in 1883, but was defeated at the 1885 general election. .

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Book number: 18-1343

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Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)

Sir Francis Grant; an Able Artist and an Excellent President. Issue No. 130. (Original Lithograph. )

London: Vanity Fair, 1871. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 sheet of letterpress description. Very Good. Trimmed at bottom of page with some loss of text. Published in Vanity Fair, 29 April 1871. Sir Francis Grant PRA (18 January 1803 - 5 October 1878) was a Scottish portrait painter who painted Queen Victoria and many distinguished British aristocratic and political figures. He served as President of the Royal Academy. .

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Book number: 18-3287

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Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)

Sir Thomas Erskine May Kcb; Parliamentary Practice. Issue No. 131. (Original Lithograph. )

London: Vanity Fair, 1871. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 sheet of letterpress description. Very Good. Trimmed at bottom of page with some loss of text. Published in Vanity Fair, 6 May 1871. Thomas Erskine May, 1st Baron Farnborough, KCB, PC (8 February 1815 - 17 May 1886) was a British constitutional theorist. This derived from his career at the House of Commons. .

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Book number: 18-3288

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Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)

Sir George Shaw-Lefevre Kcb; la Reyne le Veult. Issue No. 139. (Original Lithograph. )

London: Vanity Fair, 1871. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 sheet of letterpress description. Very Good. Trimmed at bottom of page with some loss of text. Published in Vanity Fair, 1 July 1871. Sir John George Shaw-Lefevre KCB (24 January 1797 - 20 August 1879) was a British barrister, Whig politician and civil servant. Shaw-Lefevre was the son of Charles Shaw-Lefevre by his wife Helen, daughter of John Lefevre. Charles Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Viscount Eversley, was his elder brother. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was Senior Wrangler in 1818, and was called to the Bar, Inner Temple. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1820. He was returned to Parliament for Petersfield in December 1832, but was unseated on petition in March 1833. He served under Lord Grey as Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies in 1834. The latter year Shaw-Lefevre was appointed a Poor Law Commissioner after the passing of the Poor Law Amendment Act, which he remained until 1841. Between 1856 and 1875 he served as Clerk of the Parliaments. He also helped found the University of London and served as its Vice-Chancellor for many years. He was made a KCB in 1857 for his public services. Shaw-Lefevre married Rachel Emily, daughter of Ichabod Wright, in 1824. They had one surviving son, George, who became a prominent politician and was ennobled as Baron Eversley, and five daughters. One daughter, Madeleine Shaw-Lefevre, was the first Principal of Somerville Hall; another daughter, Rachel, married Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, son of the Prime Minister the 4th Earl of Aberdeen. Shaw-Lefevre died in August 1879, aged 82. His wife lived for six more years before dying in February 1885. The Lefevre Peninsula in South Australia, was named by Governor John Hindmarsh on 3 June 1837 after Shaw-Lefevre, who was one of South Australia's Colonisation Commissioners. .

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Book number: 18-3292

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Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839-1889)

Sir John George Tollemache Sinclair, Bart, M.P. "a Poet

London: Vanity Fair, 1880. Chromolithograph. 31 x 18.5 cm. (image). 40 x 26.5 cm. (sheet). Dated 16 October 1880. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lithographers). Very Good. Light toning along sheet edges. Sir John George Tollemache Sinclair, 3rd Baronet was a Scottish landowner and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1869 to 1885. .

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Book number: 71-1034

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Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839-1889)

Sir Anthony Panizzi K.C. B. "Books

London: Vanity Fair, 1874. Chromolithograph. 30.7 x 18.5 cm. (image). 39.8 x 25.8 cm. (sheet). Dated 17 January 1874. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lithographers). Very Good. Light toning along sheet edges, missing upper left and right sheet corners. Sir Antonio Genesio Maria Panizzi, better known as Anthony Panizzi, was a naturalised British citizen of Italian birth, and an Italian patriot. He was a librarian, becoming the Principal Librarian of the British Museum from 1856 to 1866. .

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Book number: 71-1040

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Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)

A Tennyson; the Poet Laureate. Issue No. 142. (Original Lithograph. )

London: Vanity Fair, 1871. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 sheet of description. Very Good. Minor loss on bottom left corner. Published in Vanity Fair, 22 July 1871. Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS (6 August 1809 - 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets. .

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Book number: 18-3190

Catalogue: Art