Laurence Hensell; Margaret Goldwell; John Goldwell
Laurence Hensell; Margaret Goldwell; John Goldwell
by Unknown artist
pen and ink, late 18th or 19th century (after 1500)
18 1/2 in. x 13 in. (470 mm x 330 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D34587
Sittersback to top
- John Goldwell (died 1499), Second husband of Margaret Goldwell. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Margaret Goldwell (died 1499), Wife of John Goldwell. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Laurence Hensell (died 1452), First husband of Margaret Goldwell. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
Subjects & Themesback to top
Events of 1770back to top
Current affairs
Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton resigns as Prime Minister and is succeeded by Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford.Art and science
Oliver Goldsmith publishes his poem The Deserted Village.Philosopher and politician Edmund Burke publishes Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents discussing the limits of the King's authority.
17-year-old Thomas Chatterton, later hailed as a significant poet, commits suicide in a London garret.
Thomas Gainsborough paints his portrait of Jonathan Buttall, which later becomes known as The Blue Boy.
International
'Townshend duties' on imports into the colonies are repealed, except for the duty on tea. However, this concession is soon followed by the Boston Massacre, in which British troops fire into an unruly crowd in Boston, killing five.Captain Cook reaches the eastern coast of Australia, at a place which he names Botany Bay. He discovers the Great Barrier Reef when HMS Endeavour runs onto it. Cook claims New South Wales for the British.
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Nina Green
07 October 2019, 20:09
It seems likely Margaret Goldwell (d.1499) and her husband, John Goldwell in this brass, parents of Geoffrey Goldwell, were the grandparents of Margaret Goldwell, wife of Sir John Fogge (d.1533) of Repton, Marshall of Calais, and mother of Sir John Fogge (d.1564). See the will, PROB 11/47/303, of Sir John Fogge (d.1564), and the citations therein, on the Documents page on my website at:
http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/documents.html