Thomas Holdsworth
1 portrait by Walter William Winter
© National Portrait Gallery, London
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Thomas Holdsworth
by Walter William Winter
cabinet card, April 1886
5 1/2in. x 4 1/2in. (138 mm x 103 mm)
Given by the daughters of Walter William Ouless, Catherine, Evelyn Ursula and Margaret Olivia Ouless, 1934
Photographs Collection
NPG x4990
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The Liberals win the election after the Irish Nationalists, including John Dillon, side with them over Home Rule, and Gladstone resumes the seat of Prime Minister. The failure of the first Home Rule Bill divides the Liberal party; those opposed to Home Rule break away to form the Liberal Unionist Party, supporting the Conservatives. This results in a Liberal loss at an emergency election called, and the Marquess of Salisbury becomes Prime Minister for the second time.Art and science
The Severn Tunnel is opened, freeing up the route between London and South Wales.Pears' soap company buy the copyright to John Millais's painting Bubbles, using it in an iconic and enduringly recognisable advertisement. Millais, however, attracted strong criticism from the art community, who protested against the debasement and commercialisation of art.
International
The American poet Emily Dickinson dies, aged 54. Dickinson wrote over 1,700 poems, which first came to light in 1890, and is recognised as one of America's most important writers.The Statue of Liberty, designed by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, is erected on Bedloe's island. The huge copper statue, a gift from the French to the United States to commemorate the centennial of American independence, is an iconic figure of liberty, and America itself.
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Hugh Scaman
17 September 2017, 10:59
Derby Local Studies Library have a photocopy of this photograph with your reference number. There is also a precis of his biography (D.B. Vol X p 245).
Thomas Holdsworth was a Colliery owner living at Clay Cross in Derbyshire, where he died in 1893. Three of his pits were "Alma Colliery", "Cliff Colliery" and "Pilsley Colliery". Not long before his death he restored Selby Abbey at his own expense.
I would like to see the original and examine the back for negative number and text.