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Sir Edward Paget (1775-1849) General
Sir Martin Archer Shee (1769 - 1850)
Sir John Eldon Gorst (1861-1911) Consul-General, Egypt 1907-11
Cecil Jameson (1883 - 1973)
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) painter and 1st President of Royal Academy
Sir Joshua, (after) Reynolds
James Northcote (1746 - 1831)
Sir James Burrow (1701-1782) law reporter
Jonathan, Snr Richardson (1665 - 1745)
Sir Richard Wood (1806-1900) Consul-General to Tunisia 1855-79
(Alexander von) Sándor Liezen-Mayer (1839 - 1898)
Sir John Chardin (1643-1713) traveller and merchant; envoy to Holland 1683
John Michael Wright (1617 - 1694)
Sir Henry Orland Chamberlain, 1st Baronet (1773-1829) diplomat
British 19th century unknown
Sir Nicholas Bacon (1510-1579) Lord Keeper of the Great Seal
James Crook (1759 - c.1789)
British 16th century unknown
Image not yet available
Sir Walter Ralegh (1554-1618) courtier, explorer, and author
Jacobus Houbraken (1698 - 1780)
Sir Job Charlton, 1st Baronet (c.1614-1697) judge and politician; Speaker of the House of Commons
British 17th century unknown
Reproduction restricted: copyright holder unknown
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965) Prime Minister
Julian Lamar (1893 - 1967)
“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”
Walter Crane (1845 - 1915)
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965) Prime Minister
Sir Oswald, (after) Birley (1880 - 1952)
John Leigh-Pemberton (1911 - 1997)
Sir John Mellor (1809-1887) judge
Edgar George Papworth (1809 - 1866)
Palace of Westminster
William Walcot (1874 - 1943)
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) natural philosopher and mathematician
Sir Godfrey, (after) Kneller
Sir James William Morrison (1774-1856) Deputy Master of the Royal Mint 1830-50
George Clint (1770 - 1854)
Hudibras and the Lawyer
Thomas Cook (1744 - 1818)
William Hogarth (1697 - 1764)
Sir Francis Mowatt (1837-1919) civil servant; Permanent Secretary of the Treasury 1894-1903
Charles Wellington Furse (1868 - 1904)
Sir George Thomas Staunton (1781-1859) politician, writer and Sinologist
Sir Martin Archer Shee (1769 - 1850)
Sir Joseph Jekyll (1663-1738) Master of the Rolls
George Vertue (1684 - 1756)
Michael Dahl (c1659 - 1743)
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) painter and first President of the Royal Academy
Sir Joshua, (after) Reynolds
Plate 7
Chris Orr (1943 - )
Sir Walter Ralegh (1554-1618) courtier, explorer, and author
British 16th century unknown
Sir Joseph Jekyll (1663-1738) Master of the Rolls
Michael Dahl (c1659 - 1743)
Sir Frederick Francis Liddell (1865-1950) First Parliamentary Counsel and Counsel to the Speaker
Richard Evelyn Fuller Maitland (1885 - 1953)
Sir John Norris (1670/1-1749) Admiral of the Fleet
Thomas Hudson (1701 - 1779)
Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894) Politician, Diplomat and Archaeologist
British 19th century unknown
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) Artist and Diplomat: Self Portrait
Peter Paul, (After) Rubens
Image not yet available
Sir Joseph Jekyll (1663-1738) Master of the Rolls
George Vertue (1684 - 1756)
Michael Dahl (c1659 - 1743)
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (1788-1850) Prime Minister
Robert Richard Scanlan (c1801 - 1876)
The Chivalric Vow of the Ladies and the Peacock
Daniel Maclise (1806 - 1870)
Sir Mark John Mactaggart Stewart (1834-1923) MP
Sir George Reid (1841 - 1913)
Sir Charles Barry (1795-1860) Architect
Henry William Pickersgill (1782 - 1875)
Sir Henry Church Maxwell Lyte (1848-1940) archivist and historian; Keeper of Public Records
Samuel Melton Fisher (1860 - 1939)
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John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820-1894) judge
Jane Fortescue Coleridge ( - 1878)
Charles Holl
Bullock’s Museum, 22 Piccadilly
British 19th century unknown
Sir Thomas Herbert, 1st Baronet (1606-1682) traveller and author
British 17th century unknown
Sir George Lloyd Hodges (1792-1862) soldier and diplomat
British 19th century unknown
A King and his Mace-Bearer, AD1310
Samuel Rush Meyrick (1783 - 1848)
W Maddocks
Sir William Chambers (1726-1796) Architect of Somerset House
Francis Cotes (1726 - 1770)
Sir Augustus John Foster, 1st Baronet (1780-1848) diplomat; HM Minister to Denmark 1814-1824
Christian Albrecht Jensen (1792 - 1870)
Sir Mathew Hale (1609-1676) judge and writer; Chief Justice of the King’s Bench
John Michael Wright (1617 - 1694)
Sir Walter Ralegh and his Son
British 17th century (after) unknown
Elizabeth MacFadgen (1923 - )
Sir James Eyre (1734-1799), Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760/61 - 1802)
Temple Church, Interior of the Circular Part
John Henry Lekeux (1812 - 1896)
Robert William Billings (1813 - 1874)
John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820-1894) judge; Lord Chief Justice of England
Francis John Williamson (1833 - 1920)
The Installation Banquet of the Knights of St. Patrick in the Great Hall, Dublin Castle, 17 March 1783
John Keyse Sherwin (1751 - 1790)
Sir James Bacon (1798-1895) judge
Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm (1834 - 1890)
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Novelist and Poet
Colvin Smith (1796 - 1875)
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