Sir John Dugdale Astley, 3rd Bt
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir John Dugdale Astley, 3rd Bt
by John Flatman
watercolour, 1870s
12 1/2 in. x 7 1/4 in. (318 mm x 184 mm)
Purchased, 1935
Primary Collection
NPG 2775
Linked publicationsback to top
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 21
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Events of 1870back to top
Current affairs
William Edward Forster's Education Act is passed, making provisions for education for all under-13s. It demonstrated the balance in Gladstone's first ministry between progressive reform and conservativism by spreading literacy, whilst maintaining the status of Church schools.The Married Women's Property Act gives wives rights over their own earnings.
Art and science
The Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's fantasy-overture Romeo and Juliet, based on Shakespeare's play and written with the aid of composer Mily Balakirev, debuts in Moscow, conducted by Nikolai Rubenstein.W. G. Grace becomes cricket captain of Gloucestershire, marking the start of a successful decade for the club in which they won three 'Champion County' titles.
International
Isaac Butt, an Irish MP at Westminster, forms the Home Rule Association.The Franco-Prussian war breaks out between France and a coalition of German states led by Prussia. Provoked by the candidacy of German Prince Leopold Hohenzollen-Sigmaringen for the Spanish throne, France declared war in July after Bismark published the deliberately provocative Ems telegraph, in which the French were represented in an offensive light on the issue.
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Tony Copsey
29 July 2019, 18:16
John Flatman, was born at Newmarket, Suffolk in 1844, third child and second son of Elnathan [Nat] Flatman (1810-1860), the famous Newmarket jockey, and his wife Susan nee Wright (1813-1899), who married at Mickleham, Surrey on 24 November 1837. In 1851, a 7 year old scholar, living at Shag End, Wood Ditton, Newmarket with his parents, 40 year old Elnathan, born at Holton, Suffolk and 38 year old Susan, born at Wereham, Norfolk, together with siblings Ellen 11, Nathaniel 9, Nancy 4, Phillis Sarah 3 and newly born William, all born in Cambridgeshire. In 1871, a 27 year old architect, living on his own account at Bedford Row, Holborn, London and in 1881 he married at Newmarket Alice Pledger (26 March 1864-1962). In 1881, a 36 year old artist animal painter, living at Queen Street, Newmarket All Saints, Suffolk with his 19[sic] year old Newmarket born wife Alice and their newly born daughter Alice. In 1891, a 47 year old architect & surveyor, living at Orlando Villa, Rous Road, Newmarket with his wife and now five children, Alice, Gladys 9, Sybil 5, John 2 and newly born Elsie all born at Newmarket and ten years later still at the same address with the addition of three more daughters. He died at Orlando Villa, Rous Road, Newmarket, Suffolk on 1 August 1918. NB Newmarket is on the border with Cambridgeshire and it is sometimes listed in that county.