A comprehensive collection of eminent people from the 19th century, including Prime Ministers and other senior politicians, prominent clergy members, Florence Nightingale and other pioneers of healthcare, the sciences, academia, etc, mostly letter and envelope cuttings mounted in an album, H.38cm x W.26cm, including: Page One: Corresponding Wellesley letter to envelope on page two above. Page Two: Above: Initialed ‘W’, probably Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, envelope with Penny red stamp, Below: Envelope signed by Robert Peel, addressed to The Rev’d Colin Campbell, Richmond, Surrey. Page Three: Above: George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, ‘Admit the Bearer to the Gallery of the House of Lords’, signed ‘Aberdeen’, dated 5 March 1847. Below: Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning, Former Governor General of India, Signed ‘Canning’, Dated March 12th 1850. Page Four: Above: Edward Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, PM 1866-1868, signed ‘Stanley’. Below: James Broun-Ramsay, Lord Dalhousie, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, Governor General of India 1848 - 1856, Signed Dalhousie, Dated July 8th 1842. Page Five: Above: Lord Campbell, Born 1781, signed ‘Campbell’, dated July 29th 1846. Middle: Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, signed ‘Brougham’, dated 23rd Sept. 1841. Below: Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman, Lord Chief Justice of England 1832-1850, Signed Denman. Page Six: Above: Henry Grey, 3rd Earl Grey, signed ‘Grey’, dated April 27th 1849. Middle: Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg. Below: Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. Page Seven: Above: Montagu Bertie, 5th Earl of Abingdon, Styled Lord Norreys until 1799, Officiated as Cup bearer at the Coronation of George IV. Middle: Edmund Boyle, 8th Earl of Cork, Styled Viscount Dungarvan from 1768 to 1798, Irish Soldier and Peer. Below: Unknown, envelope front with signature cut out. Page Eight: Above: John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll, Styled Lord John Campbell until 1839, Scottish peer and Whig politician. Middle: Field Marshal Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere, Governor of Barbados 1817-1820. Below: William Orde-Powlett, 2nd Baron Bolton. Page Nine: Above: William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British Army officer and politician. Middle: Thomas Thynne, 2nd Marquess of Bath, styled Viscount Weymouth 1789-1796. Below: John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow, British Peer and Tory politician. Page Ten: Above: Cropley Ashley-Cooper, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury. Middle: Another from the Ashley-Cooper Family. Below: Richard Griffin, 3rd Baron Braybrooke. Page Eleven: Above: George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, Foreign Secretary 1852-1853 & 1865-1868. 2nd Down: William Basil Percy Feilding, 7th Earl of Denbigh. 3rd Down: John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland, British Tory Politician who spent 33 years in Cabinet. Below: Robert Scarlett, 2nd Baron Abinger. Page Twelve: Above: William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley. 2nd Down: William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley. 3rd Down: Montagu Bertie, 6th Earl of Abingdon, Styled Lord Norreys until 1854. 4th Down: Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort. Below: Henry Charles Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort. Page Thirteen: Above: Unknown 2nd Down: Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford. 3rd Down: Frances Waldegrave, Countess Waldegrave, Daughter of John Braham. Below: Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, Foreign Secretary. 1880 - 1885. Page Fourteen: Above: Benjamin Disraeli, Conservative Prime Minister 1874-1880. Middle: Letter cutting, signed Cairns, probably Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns. Below: Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. Page Fifteen: Above: Unknown. 2nd Down: Unknown. 3rd Down: Archibald Campbell Tait, first Scottish priest to become Archbishop of Canterbury Below: Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, of the Coutts banking family, who in 1837 became the wealthiest woman in England upon inheriting her grandfathers then fortune of £1.8 million. Page Sixteen: Above: William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny. 2nd Down: Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury 1883 - 1896, First Bishop of Truro, began construction of Truro Catherderal. 3rd Down: Henry Philpott, Bishop of Worcester 1861-1890. Below: William Maclagan, Bishop of Lichfield 1878-1891, later Archbishop of York, where he crowned Queen Alexandra in 1902. Page Seventeen: Above: Paper possibly signed by George Henry, Bishop of Bath Wells, with names The Lord Viscount Sidmouth (Henry Addington, PM 1801-1804), and others. 2nd Down: John Bright MP, British Radical and Liberal Politician Notable Others: Politics: Thomas William Bramston, Conservative and protectionist MP for South Essex, 1835-1865. Trustee of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. Henry Selwin-Ibbetson, Conservative MP, Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1878-1880. Lord Eustace Cecil, Conservative MP for West Essex. Thomas Dyke Acland, Tory MP for Devonshire 1812-1818 & 1820-1831, and North Devon 1837-1857. Joseph Pease, MP for South Durham. Joseph Whitwell Pease, Liberal MP for South Durham. Arthur Pease, Liberal MP for Whitby. Frederick Lambton - 4th Earl of Durham. Sir Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope, Author and Conservative MP for Maidstone. Robert St Clair-Erskine, 4th Earl of Rosslyn. John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, Paternal Grandfather of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. Frederick Gough-Calthorpe, 5th Baron Calthorpe. Edward Villiers, 5th Earl of Clarendon. Francis Richard Charles Guy Greville. Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby. John Slaney Pakington, 2nd Baron Hampton. Baron Willoughby de Broke. Edward Littleton, 2nd Baron Hatherton. Viscount Lewisham (later the 6th Earl of Dartmouth) Conservative MP for West Kent 1878-1885. George Bridgeman, Viscount Newport, Conservative MP for North Shropshire 1867-1885, later the 4th Earl of Bradford, Maternal grandfather of Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester. Charles George Lyttelton, Baron Lyttlelton, Later 8th Viscount Cobham Rudolph Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh, 8th Earl of Desmond. Robert George Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth, (Also 14th Baron Windsor 1869-1905). William Walter Legge, 5th Earl of Dartmouth. Arthur Wrottesley, 3rd Baron Wrottesley. William Hart Dyke, Conservative MP for Mid Kent and Tennis Pioneer. Charles Newdigate Newdegate, Conservative MP for North Warwickshire. Randolph Churchill, father of Sir Winston Churchill. William Bromley-Davenport, Conservative MP for North Warwickshire 1864-1884. James Lowther, Conservative MP for North Lincolnshire, Sportsman. Sir Robert Nicholas Fowler, 1st Baronet, Conservative MP for the City of London. William Henry Foster, Liberal MP for Bridgnorth 1870-1880, then Conservative MP for Bridgnorth 1880-1885. Samuel Charles Allsopp, 2nd Baron Hindlip, Conservative MP for Taunton 1873-1887. Henry William Eaton, 1st Baron Cheylesmore, Conservative MP for Coventry 1881-1887. Charles Pelham Villiers, Liberal MP for Wolverhampton, then Wolverhampton South 1835-1886, Liberal Unionist MP for Wolverhampton South 1886-1998. Philip Henry Muntz, Liberal MP for Birmingham 1868–1885. Joseph Firth Bottomley Firth, Liberal MP for Chelsea 1880-1889. Hamar Alfred Bass, Liberal MP for Tamworth and West Staffordshire 1878-1898. Thomas Rowley Hill, Liberal MP for Worcester, 1874-1885. William Fowler, Liberal MP for Cambridge, 1868-1874 & 1880-1885. Sir Charles Forster, 1st Baronet, Radical MP for Walsall, 1852-1859, Liberal MP for Walsall 1859-1891. Jesse Collings, Liberal MP for Ipswich 1880-1885, then MP for Birmingham Bordseley 1886-1912, then Conservative 1912-1918. Sir Michael Arthur Bass, First Baron Burton, Liberal MP for Stafford 1865-1868 Arthur Wellesley Peel, 1st Viscount Peel, Youngest son of PM Robert Peel, Liberal MP for Warwick 1865-1885, then Warwick & Lemington 1885-1895, Speaker of the House of Commons 1884 until 1895. George Leeman, Liberal MP for York 1865-1868 & 1871-1880. Joseph Chamberlain, Radical Liberal (1866–1886), Liberal Unionist (1886–1912), Conservative (1912-1914), Leader of the Opposition 8 February 1906 – 27 February 1906, and Father of Austen Chamberlain and PM Neville Chamberlain. Blanche Adeliza Fitzroy - Wife of Robert St Clair-Erskine, 4th Earl of Rosslyn. Lady Katherine Frances Scott - wife of Gustavus Russell Hamilton-Russell, 8th Viscount Boyne. James Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury - Twice Foreign Secretary, Leader of the House of Lords for 1 year in 1868. William Edgcumbe, 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe. Florence Nightingale - ‘God Bless you ever, Love you, FNightingale’ Lillie Langtry - British Socialite, stage actress and Producer. George Cruikshank - British caricaturist and book illustrator. Briton Rivière - British Painter of Huguenot Descent. Samuel Edmund Waller - English Painter. Joseph Lister - British surgeon, medical scientist, and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery and preventive healthcare. Letter cutting, signed ‘J Kidd’, probably John Kidd - English Chemist and Geologist who took a leading role in Oxford's "scientific awakening". James Matthews Duncan - Scottish physician, known as a practitioner of and author on obstetrics. Blanche Adeliza Fitzroy - Wife of Robert St Clair-Erskine, 4th Earl of Rosslyn. Lady Katherine Frances Scott - wife of Gustavus Russell Hamilton-Russell, 8th Viscount Boyne. James Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury - Twice Foreign Secretary, Leader of the House of Lords for 1 year in 1868. William Edgcumbe, 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe. James Paget - English surgeon and pathologist, best remembered for first describing Paget's disease. University of Edinburgh Professors: Archibald Geikie - Prof. of Geology and Mineralogy 1871-1882 David Masson - Prof. of Rhetoric English Literature 1865-1895 Charles Wyville Thomson - Prof. of Natural History 1870-1882 Alexander Dixon or Dickson - Prof. of Botany 1880-1887 George Chrystal - Prof. of Mathematics 1879-1911 Alexander Crum Brown - Prof. of Chemistry 1869-1908 Peter Guthrie Tait - Prof. of Natural Philosophy 1860-1901 And others. Condition: Album - Splits to spine, foxing, other light marks to album. Pages in various conditions, some with small tears, foxing at edges, contents generally good with the usual creases etc. as expected. Please see images. Category: Books, Maps & Manuscripts/Autographs & Manuscripts Estimate: 500-800 GBP