Charles Old Goodford

1 portrait by Robert Hannah

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Charles Old Goodford

by Thomas Oldham Barlow, published by R. Ingalton Drake, after Robert Hannah
mezzotint, published 21 September 1869
18 1/4 in. x 14 in. (463 mm x 355 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D34596

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  • Thomas Oldham Barlow (1824-1889), Engraver and etcher. Artist or producer associated with 45 portraits, Sitter in 5 portraits.
  • R. Ingalton Drake (active 1869-1893), Publisher. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.
  • Robert Hannah (1812-1909), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.

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Current affairs

Gladstone introduces the Irish Church Disestablishment Act, which disestablishes the Church of Ireland, disassociating it from the state and repealing the paying of tithes to the Anglican Church of Ireland.
Girton College is founded in Cambridge by Barbara Bodichon and Emily Davies, the first residential college for women in England; women were granted full membership to the University in 1948.

Art and science

Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev invents the periodic table of elements, which arranges elements within a group in order of their atomic mass.
The British scientist Mary Somerville publishes her last book On Molecular and Microscopic Science.
Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir paint together in the open air at La Grenouillère, developing the Impressionist style.

International

The Suez canal opens, linking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Suez with the Mediterranean Sea, and transforming trade routes between Europe and Asia as merchants no longer had to circumvent Africa. The canal was largely in British and French control until Egyptian nationalisation in 1956, which sparked off the international Suez crisis.
Serialisation of Leo Tolstoy's epic novel of Russian society during the Napoleonic wars, War and Peace finishes.

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