Peter Robert Drummond-Burrell (né Burrell), 2nd Baron Gwydyr, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby ('A Welch Castle')

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Peter Robert Drummond-Burrell (né Burrell), 2nd Baron Gwydyr, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby ('A Welch Castle')

by Richard Dighton
coloured etching, 1818
11 3/4 in. x 8 3/4 in. (300 mm x 223 mm) plate size; 14 1/8 in. x 9 7/8 in. (359 mm x 246 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D13205

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  • Richard Dighton (1795-1880), Portrait painter and caricaturist. Artist or producer associated with 313 portraits, Sitter associated with 1 portrait.

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Current affairs

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

Art and science

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.

International

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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john Shepperd

10 January 2020, 16:17

Born 1782, died 1865. He was initially a Whig M.P. for Boston and later a Tory. From a long established noble family, he was extremely wealthy, living in Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire. He was a keen yachtsman, and owned three vessels, the last, "New Moon" was launched in 1859 when he was 77 years old, and he remained active with her races until he died aged 83.