Images Dated 9th June 2007

George Douglas Campbell (1823-1900), 8th Duke of Argyll, Scottish Whig politician and scientist

George Douglas Campbell (1823-1900), 8th Duke of Argyll, Scottish Whig politician and scientist. Campbell was Secretary of State for India from 1868-1874. A geologist, he supported the cataclysmic school of geology rather than uniformitarianism. He was also an opponent of the theories of Darwin. Illustration from The Life & Times of Queen Victoria, Vol II, by Robert Wilson

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Joseph Paxton (1801-1865), English gardener and architect

Joseph Paxton (1801-1865), English gardener and architect. Paxton was Superintendent of the Duke of Devonshire's gardens at Chiswick and Chatsworth from 1826, and designer of the Crystal Palace, built to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. He set up the Daily News, appointing Charles Dickens as editor, and was Liberal MP for Coventry from 1854. Paxton was born into abject poverty but died a very wealthy man. Illustration from The Life & Times of Queen Victoria, Vol II, by Robert Wilson

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The Queens visit to the Britannia Tubular Bridge, Wales, c1888

The Queen's visit to the Britannia Tubular Bridge, Wales, c1888. Queen Victoria visits George Stephenson's bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the Welsh mainland. Illustration from The Life & Times of Queen Victoria, Vol II, by Robert Wilson, (c1888)

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