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David Robert Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore

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David Robert Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore

by The Autotype Company, after Henry James Haley
collotype, 1881 or after
12 in. x 9 in. (304 mm x 228 mm) plate size; 19 in. x 14 1/2 in. (482 mm x 368 mm) paper size
Given by Grillion's Club, 1915
Reference Collection
NPG D20766

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  • The Autotype Company (active 1868-), Reproductive engravers, printers and publishers. Artist or producer associated with 46 portraits.
  • Henry James Haley (1874-active 1901-1919), Painter and engraver. Artist or producer associated with 4 portraits.

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Current affairs

Benjamin Disraeli dies of bronchitis. He refuses a state funeral and is buried next to his wife, Mary Ann Viscountess Beaconsfield.
Gladstone's Irish Land Act is passed in a bid to stop violence carried out by the republican Land League, conducted in protest at the 1870 Land Act.
Henry Mayers Hyndman forms the Marxist Democratic Federation.

Art and science

The Natural History Museum is opened on Exhibition Road, South Kensington. The museum, a landmark gothic design by the architect Alfred Waterhouse, was built to house specimens from the natural sciences, previously in the British Museum's collection. Today, the museum comprises of over 70 million items, and is a world-renowned research centre.

International

Alexander II is assassinated in a bomb attack by members of a left-wing revolutionary movement. He was succeeded by his son, Tsar Alexander III.
US President James Garfield is shot by Charles Guiteau.
The first Anglo-Boer war ends. The war is started by a Boer uprising, as the British had annexed the Transvaal in 1877. Following Britain's defeat at the Battle of Majuba Hill, a truce is signed giving the Boers self-government and later independence.

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