Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns
1 portrait by Robert Jefferson Bingham
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns
by Robert Jefferson Bingham
albumen carte-de-visite, 1864
3 1/2 in. x 2 1/4 in. (89 mm x 57 mm) image size
Given by W. Palin Elderton, 1934
Photographs Collection
NPG Ax39722
Sitterback to top
- Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns (1819-1885), Lord Chancellor and philanthropist. Sitter in 20 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Robert Jefferson Bingham (1825-1870), Photographer. Artist or producer of 24 portraits.
Placesback to top
- Place made: France (photographer's studio, 58 rue de la Rochefoucauld, Paris, France)
Events of 1864back to top
Current affairs
First of the Contagious Diseases Act. These acts allowed for the arrest, medical inspection and confinement of any woman suspected of being a prostitute in the port towns. Following huge public outcry over their discrimination against women, notably led by Josephine Butler, leader of the Ladies' National Association, the acts were eventually repealed.Octavia Hill starts work on slums, and the International Working Men's Association is founded in London.
Art and science
The Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell presents his discoveries in the field of electromagnetics to the Royal Society. His paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field expresses the basic laws of electricity and magnetism in unified fashion. Maxwell's equations, as his rules came to be known, helped create modern physics, laying the foundation for future work in special relativity and quantum mechanics.International
Austria and Prussia combine forces to seize Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark.Britain cedes Corfu, acquired from France in the Second Treaty of Paris (1815) to Greece. Although Britain had vigorously suppressed an uprising in 1849 in Cephalonia aiming to restore Iolian islands, the government changed policy throughout the 1850s and 60s.
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