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78 Individuals  [134 Records → 0 to 50]

Haynes Gibbes Alleyne 
Trustee
Australian Museum  
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Mather Byles Almon 
Governor
Dalhousie University  
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Governor
Dalhousie University  
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George Henry Ames 
Founder member?
Camden Society  
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James Hughes Anderdon 
Paintings

Old Masters and modern pictures

 
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The Tate has John Constable's 'Malvern Hall, Warwickshire' (1809), acquired by Anderdon by 1840 and sold 1879 to George Salting,  who bequeathed it to the National Gallery in 1910,...
John Proctor Anderdon 
FellowPaintings
Royal Society

Charity [Carita] by Andrea del Sarto

 
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Andrew Arcedeckne 
Paintings

Francesco Guardi, Venice: A View of the Rialto Bridge from the Fondamente del Carob (c. 1768). Oil on canvas, 120 x 203.7 cm

 
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The painting owned by the Arcedeckne family from Chaloner Arcedeckne (1741-1809) until it was sold in 1891 to the Guinness family. See...
Alexander Baring 
Trustee
British Museum  
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Trustee
National Gallery  
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Council member
University of London (University College, London)  
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Statement by the Council of the University of London, Explanatory of the Nature and Objects of the Institution (London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green / John Murray,...
Francis Baring 
Subscriber
University of London (University College, London)  
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Statement by the Council of the University of London, Explanatory of the Nature and Objects of the Institution (London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green / John Murray, 1827), p. 50;...
Joshua Bates 
Benefactor
Manor Hall Asylum  
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Left $50,000 to Boston Public Library in his will (source:...
John Belisario 
Member
Australian Museum  
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Member
Linnean Society of London  
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Member
Royal Society  
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Ralph Bernal 
Objets

Collector of glass, plate, ceramics, and miniatures.

 
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According to Helen Davies, entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: 'After his death ... the Society of Arts tried to persuade the government to buy the...
Samuel Boddington 
Library - books

Collector of art library. Included copies of Blake's Songs of Innocence, America, Europe, Jerusalem and the Gates of Paradise.

 
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Mark Evans, 'Blake, Calvert - and Palmer? The album of Alexander Constantine Ionides', Burlington Magazine, 144 (1194) (2002), p....
 
Sculpture

Boddington's collection of fine art included Bertel Thorvaldsen's, Hebe which he commissioned 1815. [Now in Thorvaldsens Musuem, Copenhagen.]

 
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Mark Evans, 'Blake, Calvert - and Palmer? The album of Alexander Constantine Ionides', Burlington Magazine, 144 (1194) (2002), p....
Thomas Boddington the younger 
Library - books

Said to have been a collector fine art, books - including first editions of William Blake, etchings etc.

 
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Mark Evans, 'Blake, Calvert - and Palmer? The album of Alexander Constantine Ionides', Burlington Magazine, 144 (1194) (2002), p. 546 & n....
Andreas Christian Boode 
Steward
Royal Academy of Music  
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Appears as one of 25 stewards for dinner of 28/5/1825 chaired by HRH Duke of York...
Josias Booker 
Governor and Trustee
Blue Coat Hospital  
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Slinn & Tanburn 'The Booker Story' pp....
 
Life Governor
Manor Hall Asylum  
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One of founders; became a Life Governor 1843 until...
 
Founder member
St Anne's Church, Aigburth  
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Founder with among others John Moss, C.S. Parker, J.A. Tinne.  Josias Booker paid £175 for 3 pews.   1st entry in baptism register is that of Josias Booker's son, John Horrocks...
John Watson Borradaile 
Steward
Marine Society  
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Steward in 1817; possibly earlier and not known when left office. Morning Chronicle, 16 April...
James Whatman Bosanquet 
Fellow
Royal Astronomical Society  
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Fellow
Society of Biblical Archaeology  
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George Weare Braikenridge 
FellowObjets, coins etc.
Geological Society

Antiquarian and varied collection

 
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FellowPaintings
Society of Antiquaries

'The Braikenridge Collection': views of Bristol by various artists, mainly done in the 1820s.

 
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Braikenridge a patron of the Bristol School of artists. Central to his collection was a copy of William Barrett, History and Antiquities of the City of Bristol and a collection of more...
John Ivatt Briscoe 
Benefactor
Hospitals (various)  
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Date is of Briscoe's will. On his death, Briscoe left £1,000 to a number of hospitals: Victoria Hospital, Surrey County Hospital, Surrey Dispensary, King's College Hospital, London Fever...
Archibald Campbell 
Founder member
Western Club  
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T. F. Donald, The Western Club 1825-1925 (Glasgow, Maclehose, Jackson & Co.,...
George Carrington 
Library - mss.

Shakespearean Quartos

 
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In 1905 5 Shakespearean quartos (Merchant of Venice; King Richard II; Henry IV; Henry IV part II; and King Lear) belonging to George Carrington of Missenden Abbey were sold at auction. The quartos...
Robert Carrington, 2nd Baron Carrington 
President
London Institution  
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Fellow
Royal Society  
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Fellow
Society of Antiquaries  
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Sir Simon Haughton Clarke 9th Bart. 
Library - books

Library comprising principally 'the finest Works of Art'

 
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Notice of sale The Art-Union No. 14 March 15 1840 p. 44....
Crawford Davison 

Presentation sword

 
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William Joseph Denison 
Subscriber
University of London (University College, London)  
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Statement by the Council of the University of London, Explanatory of the Nature and Objects of the Institution (London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green / John Murray,...
James Gordon Duff 
Director
Caledonian Asylum  
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Steward
Caledonian Society  
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Steward
Scottish Hospital & Corporation  
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Hon. George Heneage Lawrence Dundas 
Subscriber
University of London (University College, London)  
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Statement by the Council of the University of London, Explanatory of the Nature and Objects of the Institution (London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green / John Murray,...
Henry Moreton Dyer 
Vice-President
Horticultural Society  
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Sir Edward Hyde East 1st Bart. 
Fellow
Royal Society  
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Rt. Hon. Edward Ellice 
Paintings

The Duchess of Bedford on a balcony, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (pen & ink)

 
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Founder member
Reform Club  
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Alexander Fraser 
Subscriber
Northern Infirmary  
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John Fuller 
Benefactor
Royal Institution  
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John Fuller subscribed two professorships, the Fullerian chairs in anatomy and physiology and in chemistry, at the Royal Institution....
Allan Gilmore 
Paintings
 
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William Gladstone 
Governor
Christ's Hospital  
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Rubinstein...

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