Glimpses of Bygone Staffordshire
Author: Frederick William Hackwood
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 140
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Author: Frederick William Hackwood
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 140
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 126
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: The Marquess of Anglesey
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 1990-12-31
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 1473816890
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLetters and unpublished material contribute to this dramatic, humorous, and romantic biography of the heroic nobleman written by his descendant. Henry William Paget, first Marquess of Anglesey, was born more than twenty years before the French Revolution. Like his famous contemporary the Duke of Wellington, he became a legend during his lifetime. As a youth he was in one scrape after another; in his forties he figured in a celebrated elopement and duel which caused much scandal; but he is best known for his greatness as a cavalry leader. His brilliant timing of the charge of his “heavies” at Waterloo averted disaster in the first crisis of that battle. Having lost a leg by one of the last shots fired on that sanguinary day, he was later known as One-Leg Paget. Anglesey was twice lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. He was still in high office two years before his death at the age of sixty-five. Among the famous figures prominent in this absorbing story are the Prince Regent, Queen Victoria, Sir John Moore, Lord Melbourne, Daniel O’Connell and, of course, the “Iron Duke,” with whom Anglesey was often at odds but of whom in old age he became a very close friend.
Author: Jon Raven
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 232
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 96
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 538
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Phil Drabble
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Published: 1952
Total Pages: 298
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 266
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Janet Seaton
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 172
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Myrna Schkolne
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780764345388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart of a multi-volume work that catalogs the enormous range of enamel-painted figures made predominantly in the Staffordshire Potteries between 1780 and 1840, Volume 2 presents figures portraying equestrians, fairground entertainers, personalities from literature and the stage, biblical characters, and a host of people of national and international significance. Also shown are sporting pastimes and figures reflecting a patriotic theme. It includes over 1000 brilliant color photos of figures. Literary figures range from Cleopatra and Doctor Syntax, while important persons as varied as Benjamin Franklin and Admiral Lord Nelson are captured in clay. The works also include the early pugilists, bull and bear baiting, and sportsmen and women of those days. Many of these figures have long been hidden from the public eye. Fashioned in an era before photography, they give us rare glimpses of a world that has vanished. In many cases, they are hauntingly beautiful. To hold one is to touch the past.