John Lawrence Toole as Mr Tittums in 'The Steeple Chase; or, In the Pigskin'
1 portrait of John Lawrence Toole
© National Portrait Gallery, London
John Lawrence Toole as Mr Tittums in 'The Steeple Chase; or, In the Pigskin'
by Unknown photographer
albumen print on paper mount, 1865
3 3/8 in. x 2 1/4 in. (87 mm x 58 mm) image size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Photographs Collection
NPG x26920
Sitterback to top
- John Lawrence Toole (1830-1906), Actor and theatre manager. Sitter in 38 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Unknown photographer, Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 6582 portraits.
Events of 1865back to top
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson is the first female to be awarded a doctor's licence. She is also involved in collecting signatures for the Manchester Suffrage Committee, the first suffrage organisation, formed this year. John Stuart Mill was also elected to parliament this year on the platform of women's suffrage.Palmerston dies in October, and is replaced as leader of the Liberal government by his Foreign Secretary, Lord Russell.
Art and science
Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland is published, inspired by Carroll's relationship (as Oxford don Charles Dodgson) with his friend Henry George Liddell's daughter Alice.Matthew Arnold publishes the first series of Essays in Criticism, a defining text in the development of English literature as an academic discipline.
International
In the American civil war, Robert E. Lee surrenders the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant, leading to the surrender of the Confederacy's remaining field armies. A few days later, US President Abraham Lincoln is shot dead by Confederate sympathiser John Wilkes Booth. Later this year slavery is officially abolished after years of fierce campaigning. In response, the first branch of the Ku Klux Klan is founded on Christmas Eve.Comments back to top
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Alan Garner
02 June 2018, 18:14
NPGx26920 is a photo of J.L. Toole as Mr. Tittums in The Steeple Chase; or, In the Pigskin.
It was a farce first produced at the Adelphi Theatre, 22nd March 1865.
The V&A have the same photo, but incorrectly list Mr. Toole's character as Mr. Tittmus.