John Charles Gawen Roberts-Gawen
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 3 October 1860
NPG Ax50782
John Charles Gawen Roberts-Gawen
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1866
NPG Ax59469
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Andy Parkes
27 January 2017, 19:29
There is a stained glass window in our Church (St Michael & All Angels, Chetwynd, Shropshire) that is dedicated to Admiral Roberts Gawen. Is was commissioned by his daughter Elizabeth Charlotte Burton Borough, as a memorial to her father: the window illustrates the presentation of our Lord at the temple.
In correspondence sent on 02/03/1876, to the window maker (John Hardman & Co of Birmingham) Elizabeth requested that the 'head, beard and features' of Simeon, should be the likeness of her late father: to acheive this she sent a photograph.
The Hardmans artist (George Bernard Maycock) clearly used the Silvy portrait - as the face in our window bears a remarkable similarity to the photo.
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John Tucker
11 March 2017, 16:27
I have "Charles Gawen Roberts Gawen"'s hand-written Journal of Field Ornithology, Vol. 2 (1888-1911), in which a typed note says that he was the "(3rd son of John Charles Burton Borough, Esq., of Chetwynd Park, Newport, Salop) ; born , 1860." I would like to locate Vol.1 of his notes.