Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert, 1st Bt

1 portrait by George Francklin Atkinson

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Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert, 1st Bt

by Thomas Goff Lupton, published by Dickinson Brothers, after George Francklin Atkinson
mezzotint, published December 1852
17 1/2 in. x 13 1/2 in. (445 mm x 344 mm) paper size
Given by Canon J.A. Atkinson, 1892
Reference Collection
NPG D34501

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  • George Francklin Atkinson (1822-1859), Officer of the Bengal Engineers and artist. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.
  • Dickinson Brothers (active 1852-1908), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 28 portraits.
  • Thomas Goff Lupton (1791-1873), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 131 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.

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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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Deepak Panda

17 September 2017, 01:46

Walter Raleigh Gilbert was the Political Agent of Governor General for the western province and Sumbulpore from 1825 to 1827. During this time he got painted many locations, buildings, temples of Sumbulpore which are now at British Library, London in Gilbert collection category. So he is remembered at Sambalpur very much.