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Algernon Charles Swinburne with nine of his peers at Oxford

by Hills & Saunders
albumen print, circa 1859-1860
7 1/2 in. x 9 7/8 in. (189 mm x 251 mm) overall
Purchased, 1989
Primary Collection
NPG P416

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  • Hills & Saunders (active 1850-1900), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 206 portraits.

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L-R: Joseph Frank Payne, physician (1840-1910); George Rankine Luke, scholar (1836-1862); John Warneford Hoole, scholar (1837-1902); Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet and literary reviewer (1837-1909); Thomas Hill Green, philosopher (1836-1882); John Nichol, literary scholar and writer (1833-1894); James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, jurist, historian and politician (1838-1922); Albert Venn Dicey, jurist (1835-1922); Aeneas James George MacKay, legal and historical writer (1839-1911); Sir Thomas Erskine Holland, jurist (1835-1926).

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Formation of the first Liberal cabinet, following the dissolution of Parliament in light of the Liberal and opposition member Lord Russell's introduction of a resolution arguing for widening the franchise, carried because the Conservatives, the ruling party, only have a minority. Palmerston holds a meeting of Whigs, Peelites and Radicals, from which the Liberal Party is formed, and the Queen later invites him to become Prime Minister.

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Charles Darwin's The Origin of the Species is published, in which he sets out his theory of evolution based on the process of natural selection, species mutation, and survival of the fittest.
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Outbreak of war between an alliance of France and Italian nationalists, and Austria. Napoleon III signs an armistice with Austria. However, pressure from Britain, supporting Italian unification to counterweight French and Austrian influence, leads to success for Italian nationalists.
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Clive Simmonds

10 August 2019, 13:14

Monsman reproduces the photo too, and says 'a photo of the group was taken by Hills and Saunders, Trinity Term, 1860.'

[Gerald Monsman Oxford University's Old Mortality Society (Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1998), p.22]

He doesn't give the source of his information though the studio seems likely enough. But Rossetti's drawing dated Aug. 1860 http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/s522.rap.html means that 1860 can't be right for the Old Mortality group - Swinburne's hair won't have grown that quickly. And W.B. Scott's portrait, now at Balliol which is directly comparable to Rossetti's is dated in the shield "Jan. to Oct 1860" - https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xzKjbhL43nA/UaaPZFyjx4I/AAAAAAAALok/KA8mRfqoczM/s1600/Algernon+Charles+Swinburne+by+William+Bell+Scott.jpg