James Grant Raymond

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James Grant Raymond

by Charles Turner, published by and after W.H. Bate
mezzotint, published 14 January 1818
15 1/2 in. x 11 7/8 in. (393 mm x 303 mm) plate size; 15 7/8 in. x 12 1/8 in. (404 mm x 309 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1961
Reference Collection
NPG D39223

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  • W.H. Bate (circa 1789-active 1827), Portrait and landscape painter. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.
  • Charles Turner (1773-1857), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 632 portraits, Sitter in 2 portraits.

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Death of Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, George III's Queen since 1761.
Official enquiry initiated into Queen Caroline's conduct abroad.

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Mary Shelley anonymously publishes her masterpiece Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus which reflects growing concern about the role of morality in science.
Lord Byron completes his romance Childe Harolde's Pilgrimage, whose gloomy, dissolute hero was probably based on the writer himself.

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Stamford Raffles acquires authorisation to construct a fort at Singapore marking the beginning of its development as a centre of East-West trade.
Congress of European Alliance at Aix-La-Chapelle. Lord Castlereagh plays a central role in establishing a pan-Europe peace settlement to bring a chastened France back into the world of political respectability.

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O Lewenz

21 March 2019, 23:11

Google Book: Monthly Mirror 1806
Pg292, Nov 1806, has article about Mr Raymond (excerpts copied from this source):

"Mr James Grant Raymond was born on the 29th of March 1771, in Strathsprey, in the Highlands of Scotland; within a short distance of Culloden-moor, well known as a ….. His father a descendant of Lodowick Grant an ancient Highland chieftain (and the head of one of the oldest and most powerful clans in that part of Scotland), was an officer in the army; and lost his life in Charlestown, in South Carolina, during the latter part of the American War. The widow being left with five children, the eldest of whom (our hero) had not attained his ninth year, removed with her young family from their small paternal residence in the Highlands, to the village Inverkeithny in the county of Banff; where James was put to school under the care and tuition of a gentleman who had the reputation of an able teacher and an excellent scholar.
…. at a proper age therefore he was sent to King’s College, in the university of Aberdeen; but it was probably from possessing a levity of disposition, which did not well accord with a system of theological study and discipline, and not having the authority of a father to control him, that his stay in situation was very short.
…….. he went to sea in the capacity of mid-shipman; but he soon quitted this way of life also.
…….. he once had perseverance enough, however, to accomplish a visit to the East Indies …… In his passage home he contracted an intimate friendship with a gentleman who had acquired a handsome fortune during a residence of twenty-five years in the East; by whose invitation he visited Ireland …… became introduced (to) Edward Tighe ........ Mr Tighe was the school-friend and friend of Garrick"