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Roderick McClean shooting at Queen Victoria at Windsor railway station. From The Illustrated London News, 11 March 1882

Fenian explosives conspiracy, 1883: Police discovery of nitro-glycerine factory in the Ladywood district of Birmingham. From The Illustrated London News, 14 April 1883

William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) giving an election address on Blackheath in his Greenwich constituency. General election February 1874. Gladstone lost to the Conservatives under Disraeli

Isabel Burton (born Isabel Arundell - 1831-1896) wife of Richard Francis Burton, English explorer, adventurer and author. Engraving from The Illustrated London News (London, 22 January 1887)

Charles Tilston Bright (1832-1888) English electrical engineer, born at Wanstead, Essex. He oversaw the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable

Thomas Bazeley (1797-1885) English cotton manufacturer, merchant and politician. A member of the Anti-Cornlaw League. Member of Parliament for Manchester 1858-1880

Arthur James Balfour, 1st Baron Balfour (1848-1930) Scottish-born British Conservative statesman. Prime Minister 1902-1905 Balfour Declaration (1917)

Ernst von Bergmann (1836-1907) German surgeon who introduced the sterilisation of surgical instruments. He was called to San Remo to examine the Prussian Crown Prince

Hector Berliioz (1803-1859) French Romantic composer. Engraving from The Illustrated London News (London, 12 February 1848)

Mary Somerville (born Fairfax) (1780-1872), Scottish scientific writer, born in Jedburgh. After she was widowed in 1807she had the opportunity to study mathematics and astronomy

William Harrison (1812-1860) English sailor. First captain of the SS Great Eastern, the ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. From The Illustrated News of the World (London, c1861)

Robert Stephenson (1803-1859) English civil engineer and son of the railway engineer George Stephenson whom he assisted in a number of projects

Henriette Sontag (1806-1854) celebrated German soprano, born at Koblenz. Engraving of Madame Sontag published in The Illustrated London News (London)

Thomas Storey (1825-1898) English industrialist and philanthropist from Lancashire. Storey was a mine owner, a mill owner, and leather manufacture

The Prince Imperial. Prince Louis Napoleon (1856-1879), son of Napoleon III of France and Empress Eugenie, as a cadet at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich

Second Boer War, also called the South African War and the Anglo-Boer War. On the way to relieve Mafeking on 17 May 1900. Royal Artillery gunners firing pom-poms against the Boers during the action

Sorting room at the General Post Office, St Martin s-le-Grand, London, England. Engraving from The Illustrated London News (London, 16 May 1846)

Boring a well in the Baku oilfields of South Western Azerbaijan. Engraving from The Illustrated London News (London, 12 June 1886)

Baku oilfields in South Western Azerbaijan. A gusher spouting out a fountain of oil before it has been brought under control. Engraving from The Illustrated London News (London, 12 June 1886)

Little girl asking the village postman if there is a letterr for her. Engraving from The Illustrated London News (London, 18 February 1888)

Colliery explosion near Accrington, North Lancashire, England, November 1883. Of the 110 men and boys below ground at the time, 30 men died

Baby incubators in use at the Port-Royal Maternity Hospital, Paris, France, which was under the direction of Etienne (Stepahne) Tarnier (1828-1897), French obstetrician

Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) Norwegian Arctic explorer making a cup of Cadbury s
Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) Norwegian Arctic explorer making a cup of Cadburys Cocoa during his expedition on the Fram 1893-1895. Cadbury supplied about 1, 500 lbs (680.389 kg) to the expedition

Franz (Ferencz) Liszt (1811-1886), Hungarian pianist and composer in 1832 at the age of 21. Engraving from The Illustrated London News (London, 1886)

Khangaon cotton market, India. The cotton harvest baled up ready for sale and distribution. In the background the railway is just visible. From The Illustrated London News (London, 21 May 1870)

Construction of a suspension bridge at the Niagara Falls, North America. Temporary timber towers and rope basket ferry in operation, establishing a temporary link between the two banks

(Henry) Bartle (Edward) Frere (1815-84) British colonial administrator, born at Clydach, Breckonshire, Wales. Governor of Bombay (Mumbai) 1862-1867

Redvers Henry Buller (1839-1908) British soldier. Served in the Ashanti, Kaffir and Zulu Wars. Won the Victoria Cross at Onhlobane (1879). Promoted to Lieutenant-General in 1894

Rudolph Virchow (1821-1902) German pathologist and founder of cell pathology. In later life he turned to anthropology and archaeology and collaborated with Schliemann on the excavations at Troy

The fifth Eddystone lighthouse built on the Stone 13 miles South-east of Polperro, Cornwall, England. Designed by James Douglas, engineer to Trinity House, and constructed between 1878 and 1882

Oil springs at Tarr Farm, Oil Creek, Venango County, Pennsylvania, USA. Engraving from The Illustrated London News (London, 8 November 1862). Fuel. Hydrocarbon

Nobel Brothers oil wells at Baku (Baky or Baki), Azerbaijan, on the Caspian Sea. Engraving from The Illustrated London News (London, 3 July 1886)

A train of tankers carrying oil from the Nobel Brothers oil wells at Baku (Baky or Baki), Azerbaijan, for distribution in Russia. Engraving from The Illustrated London News (London, 10 July 1886)

William Frederick Wallett (1808-1892) English Shakespearean clown, born at Southcoates near Hull, Yorkshire. Called the Queens Jester. Engraving from The Illustrated News of the World (London, c1860)

Archibald Campbell Tait (1811-1882), British churchman born in Glasgow to Presbyterian parents. Confirmed in the Scottish Episcopal church in his first year at Oxford

Richard Chenevix French (1807-1886). Anglican clergyman born in Dublin. Dean of Westminster 1856-1863. Anglican Archbishop of Dublin 1863-1884

George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan (1800-1888 English soldier. Commanded the British cavalry in the Crimean (Russo-Turkish) War 1853-1856)

Thomas Babbington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) British historian, poet and Whig politician, born at Leicester, England

John Fox Burgoyne (1782-1871): English military engineer: served under Wellington in the Napoleonic Wars: chief of British engineering during Crimean (Russo-Turkish) War 1853-1856

John Baldwin Buckstone (1802-1879) English comic actor and playwright born at Hoxton, London. Made his first London appearance on 30 January 1823 at the Surrey Theatre in Fortunes of Nigel based

James Wilson (1805-1860) British politician and economist born at Hawick, Scotland. Liberal Member of Parliament for Westbury, Wiltshire, 1847. Campaigner for Free Trade

John Wodehouse (1826-1902) 3rd Baron Wodehouse (1846), lst Earl of Kimberley (1866). English Liberal statesman. Engraving from The Illustrated News of the World (London, c1860)

Samuel Dousland Waddy (1804-1876) English Wesleyan minister born at Burton-on-Trent. President of the Wesleyan Conference 1859. Engraving from The Illustrated News of the World (London, c1860)

Charles Richard Sumner (1790-1874) English churchman born at Kenilworth, Warwickshire. Bishop of Worcester 1827-1873. Engraving from The Illustrated News of the World (London, c1860)

John Walter the Younger (1818-1894) English newspaper proprietor and politician. Chief proprietor of The Times of London. Introduced the Walter printing press in 1869

William Shee (1804-1868) Irish lawyer born in Kilkenny. The first Roman Catholic judge appointed in Ireland since 1690. Engraving from The Illustrated News of the World (London, c1860)

William Scholefield (1809-1867), English radical Member of Parliament for Birmingham. First Mayor of Birmingham (1838) when the city was incorporated

Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons, (1790-1858) British naval officer born at Burton near Christchurch, Hampshire. Entered the Royal Navy in 1803

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