Mike Risbridger
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Captain Rees Howell Gronow..loved dancing!
A lady should always have an easy, becoming and graceful movement ....... http://t.co/4cflTqFQwv
http://t.co/BcJTcuOyuY
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Possibly my favourite Arthur Boyd Houghton oil painting.
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The woman is the artist Arthur Boyd Houghton's wife Susan Houghton [nee Gronow] The famous Regency dandy Captain Rees Howell Gronow was her uncle
Susan allowing our children to play "Coach and Horses" with her hair. Oil on canvas Arthur Boyd Houghton #ByMe! http://t.co/00KOGeIvGf
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Superb. @ABH1836 the artist was married to Susan Gronow. Niece of the famous Regency Dandy Captain Gronow!
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HI Nichola. I don't have papers on Captain Gronow. Learnt of him in 1981. Victorian artist Arthur Boyd Houghton (1836/75) was my 3xGreat maternal Grandfather. Arthur married Susan Gronow. Captain Gronow was her uncle.
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Arthur Boyd Houghton's "Itinerant Singers," 1860: one of the most unsettling Victorian paintings you'll ever see. http://t.co/4k5MrAiQC0
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Arthur Boyd Houghton was particularly good at depicting sweet children.
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Aladdin sees Princess Badroulboudour. Arthur Boyd Houghton, from Dalziel's Illustrated Arabian Nights' Entertainments, London [1865?] https://t.co/WdsUZJ9LEx
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Is Susan still saying nothing?
Susan allowing our children to play "Coach and Horses" with her hair. Oil on canvas Arthur Boyd Houghton #ByMe! http://t.co/00KOGeIvGf
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Happy #FathersDay to all you #Dads! Here's father and daughter in Arthur Boyd Houghton's "Halcyon Days" (1860-61). They're so comfortable together. Not sentimental but you know why it's likely to be a happy memory for them both! https://t.co/mN1aqjXNKj
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“News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.” ― Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
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The Reformed House of Commons, 1833 by Sir George Hayter. The first parliament to meet after the passing of the Great Reform Bill of 1832.
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Died #onthisday 1865, Rees Howell Gronow, Lib MP for Stafford 1832-5. Regency dandy who admitted to bribing 'every man, woman and child'.
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Died #onthisday 1865 Rees Howell Gronow, Regency dandy, MP for Stafford 1832-3. Admitted in his best-selling memoirs that he had bribed 'every man, woman and child'.
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@northumbriana One of the sitters is my ancestor Captain Rees Howell Gronow. But where is the fellow?
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@JaneHoodless Hello. One of my ancestors Captain Rees Howell Gronow (1794-1865) was at Eton with Shelley. They were on good terms. You can google Captain Gronow on Shelley at Eton to learn more.
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We've just updated our resources page - links to the free to access online resources we use on 19thC History.
victoriancommons.wordpress.com
In researching the careers of MPs who sat in the Commons between 1832 and 1868, and the electoral histories of the constituencies they represented, we make extensive use of online resources. On thi…
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