Montagu Chambers

1 portrait by Robert Samuel Ennis Gallon

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Montagu Chambers

printed by M & N Hanhart, after Robert Samuel Ennis Gallon
lithograph, 1852 or after
16 3/4 in. x 11 7/8 in. (427 mm x 303 mm) paper size
Given by Ernest E. Leggatt, before 1922-01-01
Reference Collection
NPG D32829

Sitterback to top

  • Montagu Chambers (1800-1885), Queen's Counsel, lawyer and Liberal politician; MP for Greenwich. Sitter in 1 portrait.

Artistsback to top

  • Robert Samuel Ennis Gallon (1808-1868), Painter and lithographer. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.
  • M & N Hanhart (active 1839-1882), Lithographic printers. Artist or producer associated with 334 portraits.

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Events of 1852back to top

Current affairs

The Peelites, a breakaway group who had supported Peel during the Corn Law reforms, join the Liberals. The Conservative Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, becomes Prime Minister after Lord John Russell's Liberal administration collapses. The administration is short-lived and replaced by a new Liberal-Peelite coalition, under the leadership of former Tory George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen.

Art and science

Start of spiritualism craze in England.
London physician Peter Mark Roget first publishes his thesaurus.
American author Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes the hugely successful anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Scottish physicist William Thomson formulates the second law of thermodynamics, demonstrating that a rapidly expanding gas cools.

International

Independent Boer republics north of the Vaal and Orange rivers are recognised by Britain following the Sand River Convention. Later, the Bloemfontein Convention (1854) formally recognises the independence of Boer republics between the Vaal and Orange rivers, resulting in the Boer Republic of the Orange Free State.
Tension escalates in Crimea as France demands that Turkey end Russia's exclusive control of the Christian Holy Places in the Ottoman empire.

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