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Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh

by William Holl Jr, after George Richmond
stipple engraving, 1865 or after
11 7/8 in. x 8 7/8 in. (302 mm x 225 mm) plate size; 22 1/2 in. x 17 5/8 in. (573 mm x 448 mm) paper size
Given by Grillion's Club, 1903
Reference Collection
NPG D20701

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Artistsback to top

  • William Holl Jr (1807-1871), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 176 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
  • George Richmond (1809-1896), Portrait painter and draughtsman; son of Thomas Richmond. Artist or producer associated with 331 portraits, Sitter in 14 portraits.

Events of 1865back to top

Current affairs

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.

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