Julian Browning Rare Books & Manuscripts

Undated. Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), Prime Minister (1855-58, 1859-65).

43 Lancaster Gate, 27 January, no year given. James Sant CVO RA (18201916), British painter specialising in portraits and known particularly for images of women and children.

Undated. Sir James Crichton-Browne (1840-1938), doctor and psychologist, lunatic asylum superintendent, a pioneer of the early treatment of mental breakdown.

Undated. Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867 1931), novelist.

London, 7 November 1811. Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge (1774-1850), tenth child of King George III and Queen Charlotte.

Postmarked Brussels, November 1883. George Augustus Sala (1828-1895), journalist and novelist, special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph.

New Grove, Petworth, 7 January 1926. A.E.W.Mason (1865-1948), English novelist and playwright.

18 Austin Friars, undated. James Smith (1775-1839), parodist and humorist.

Tremans, Horsted Keynes, Sussex, 11 March 1908. Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925), schoolmaster, editor and author.

Undated. Richard Cobden (1804-65), statesman.

[1976] Sir John Summerson (1904 1992) was one of the leading British architectural historians of the 20th century.

27 August 1895. Anthony Hope Hawkins (1863-1933), author of The Prisoner of Zenda, Rupert of Hentzau, and other works.

21 Harley Street, 28 April 1881. George Critchett (1817-1882), opthalmic surgeon, lecturer at Middlesex Hospital.

27 Elm Park Gardens, undated. Julia Neilson (1868 - 1957) was an English actress best remembered for her numerous performances as Lady Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel, as well as for her roles in many tragedies and historical romances, and for her portrayal of Rosalind in a long-running production of As You Like It. She was the daughter of Alexander Riche Neilson, a jeweler, and his wife Emily Davis. Neilson married actor Fred Terry (brother of actress Ellen Terry) and was the mother of actress Phyllis Neilson-Terry (born 1892) and actor Dennis Neilson-Terry.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 26 June 1912. Sir William Henry Hadow (1859-1937), educationalist and musicologist.

6 March 1921. Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain, KG (October 16, 1863 March 17, 1937) was a British statesman, politician, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (1925).

Undated. Dion Clayton Calthrop (1878-1937) During the 1890s he worked as a freelance painter, graphic artist and magazine illustrator, contributing to The Butterfly, The Dome, The Pall Mall Magazine, Pick-Me-Up and The Quartier Latin. For a while he was co-editor of The Idler with Sidney Sime. From around 1906 he concentrated on writing and made his name as an essayist, novelist and playwright. He often illustrated his own books and even designed the sets and costumes for his London plays.

[London] 25 September 1858. James Grant, a Scottish journalist, was a devout Calvinist who became editor of the Morning Advertiser from 1851 to 1871. He conducted several London periodicals, including The London Saturday Journal and Grant's London Journal.

3 St Paul's Stidios, Talgarth Road, 14 July 1898. Edward Tennyson Reed (18601933) was an English political cartoonist and illustrator, primarily known for his cartoons in Punch Magazine.

Bourne End, 18 September 1903. Rudolph Chambers Lehmann (1856 1929), writer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1910. As a writer he was best known for three decades in which he was a major contributor to Punch as well as founding editor of Granta magazine.

Bath, 11 October 1921. Arthur Williams Marchmont (18531923) wrote some 35 novels which often featured exciting plots and foreign settings.

13 May 1861. James Hannay (1827 1873), Scottish naval officer, novelist, journalist and diplomat. In 1848, he began using his naval experiences, and wrote the first of the stories which were afterwards collected in his Sketches in Ultramarine, published in 1853. In 1848, he first made the acquaintance of Thackeray and Carlyle, to whom he was proud to acknowledge his obligations. He soon improved his literary connection, and worked for papers of good position, for the quarterlies and magazines, till he became editor of the Edinburgh Evening Courant in 1860. During these years he published his best work, his two naval novels, Singleton Fontenoy (1850) and Eustace Conyers (1855),

6 April 1901. Maurice Maindron (1857-1911), novelist.

28 April 1900. Ernest Denis (1849 1921), French historian. Denis became known as a specialist of Germany and Bohemia, and played a major role in the establishment of the Czechoslovak state in 1918. Along with Louis Léger, he is considered to be one of the most highly regarded 20th-century historians of the Slav world in France. Upon his death, the Czechoslovak state bought his residence in Paris in order to create an institute for Slavic studies.

Edinburgh, 6 December 1843. Angelo Collen Hayter (1819-1898), painter and civil servant; son of Sir George Hayter.

10 Clarendon Street, Leamington Spa, 27 September, no year given. Uncommon. Alexander Blaikley (1816-1903), painter.

Postmarked 10 July 1879. Émilie Broisat (1848-1929), French actress.

Fulham, undated [watermark 1841]. Theodore Edward Hook (1788-1841), novelist, satirist, song writer, etc., founder of the John Bull newspaper. It is sometimes claimed that he invented the Postcard, sending the first one to himself in 1840.

19 Berkeley Square, 22 April 1867. William White Cooper (18161886), surgeon-oculist. He was one of the original staff of the North London Eye Institution, and subsequently ophthalmic surgeon to St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington. He was a careful, steady, and neat operator, and judicious and painstaking in treatment. In 1859 he was appointed surgeon-oculist in ordinary to Queen Victoria. He wrote an 'Invalid's Guide to Madeira,' 1840; 'Practical Remarks on Near Sight, Aged Sight, and Impaired Vision,' 1847, second edition 1853; 'Observations on Conical Cornea,' 1850; 'On Wounds and Injuries of the Eye,' 1859. He also published in 1852 a volume of 'Zoological Notes and Anecdotes' under the pseudonym 'Sestertius Holt,' of which a second edition appeared in 1861 under the title 'Traits and Anecdotes of Animals.' It was illustrated with full-page plates by Wolf.

HMS Crocodile at Cork, [Ireland] 4 June 1849. Donald Hugh Mackay (1780-1850) entered the Royal Naval Academy in January 1792, and embarked in 1794 as midshipman on the Daedalus. He was made Lieutenant in 1798 into the Ariadne, and accompanied Sir Home Popham on his mission to destroy the Bruges locks. After various appointments and actions, including the fall of the Helder fortress, Mackay served in various ships in the Channel fleet as Commander. From 1811 to 1816 he served on the East India station, in the Volage, the Malacca and the Minden. Part of the time he was under the command of Sir Samuel Hood, seeing arduous service in the Eastern Archipelago and the China seas. In HMS Malacca he co-operated with a squadron under Sir George Sayer in a serious attack made in June 1813 on the pirate settlement of Sambas in the island of Borneo. HMS Crocodile was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1825. She was on harbour service from 1850 and was sold in 1861.