Born in Belfast, Fraser was educated at the Royal Academical Institution and Queen's University, becoming a consultant at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children in 1927. Fraser volunteered in ...

Married fellow painter John Bratby in 1953. An assured figurative painter, Cooke had her first solo show at the Leicester Galleries in 1964 and exhibited her work regularly from then on.

Johnstone qualified and practised as a solicitor in Edinburgh but he decided to abandon law for art. He studied art at evening classes before visiting Italy between 1842 and 1844. Johnstone was ...

pencil drawing squared in ink for transfer, October 1819 (exhibited 1819) ...

The inventor and entrepreneur, Richard Arkwright is one of the leading figures of the Industrial Revolution. In 1769 he patented a water-powered spinning machine that could spin a vast number of ...

Ava (née Bodley), Viscountess Waverley (1895-1974), Former wife of Ralph Follett Wigram, and later second wife of 1st Viscount Waverley; daughter of John Edward Courtenay Bodley. Sitter in 4 portraits ...

Hungarian-born publisher; in 1951 with Diana Athill he set up André Deutsch Ltd, an independent publishing house that maintained its position in the market until the 1980s. The firm discovered and ...

A tailor by profession and self-educated, Place was a leading radical activist. Convinced that working men needed the vote, he was Chairman of the London Corresponding Society - an artisanal group ...

John Colborne entered the Army in 1794. He first saw active service in the Dutch Helder campaign of 1799 and took part in an expedition to Egypt two years later. Colborne served in the Peninsular War ...

John Harris, artist and facsimilist, was the son of watercolour painter John Harris (1767-1832). Harris studied at the Royal Academy where he specialised in miniatures. He exhibited occasionally ...

Lord Chelmsford was appointed commander of British forces in South Africa in 1878. The following year he led the British invasion of Zululand. The first engagement of the campaign was the Zulu rout of ...

Born in Oxford on 7 August 1826, Gilbert was one of eleven children of Ashurst Turner Gilbert, principal of Brasenose College, Oxford and afterwards bishop of Chichester and his wife Mary Anne.