Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman

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Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman

by John James Halls
oil on canvas, exhibited 1819
30 in. x 25 in. (762 mm x 635 mm)
Given by John Herman Merivale, 1873
Primary Collection
NPG 372

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  • John James Halls (1776-1834), Artist. Artist or producer associated with 20 portraits.

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This portrait was probably done in 1819, the year before Denman and Henry Brougham became popular liberal heroes while defending Queen Caroline at her 'trial' in 1820. Denman was eventually rewarded for his service, being appointed Lord Chief Justice in 1832.

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Current affairs

Peterloo Massacre leaves eleven dead and four hundred wounded as crowds, gathered to hear radical Henry Hunt call for reform of the House of Commons, are forcibly dispersed.
Six Acts are passed, stiffening the 1795 Treason Act and introducing a tax on the periodical press which was viewed as seditious.

Art and science

Percy Bysshe Shelley writes Ode to the West Wind during a year of extraordinary creativity in which he also finishes Prometheus Unbound.
Lord Byron publishes his tour-de-force Don Juan; one man's mock-epic odyssey through a world without fixed principles.
First ship with a steam engine crosses the Atlantic in twenty-eight days.

International

Thomas Jefferson establishes the University of Virginia.
Royal Navy anti-slave squadron is set up to patrol the West African coastline.
French physician Rene Laennac invents the stethoscope.

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