William Petty Marquess Of Lansdowne

Letter to [William Petty, 1st Marquis of Lansdowne].

• Author(s): Benjamin Franklin, William Petty (1st marquis of Lansdowne)

• Type: Book
• -
• Published: 1782
• -
• Publisher: Unknown

None

Bibliotheca Manuscripta Lansdowniana, etc. A Catalogue of the Collection of Manuscripts ... of the late William Petty ... Marquess of Lansdowne

• Author(s): William Petty Marquis of Lansdowne

• Type: Book
• -
• Published: 1807
• -
• Publisher: Unknown

None

National Portrait Gallery Mid-Georgian Portraits, 1760-1790

• Author(s): John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)

• Categories: Art

• Type: Book
• -
• Published: 2004
• -
• Publisher: Unknown

This catalogue includes such famous figures as David Garrick and Dr Samuel Johnson, Sarah Siddons and Emma Hamilton, and the work of such artists as Gainsborough, Reynolds and Romney. It has been compiled by one of the leading authorities on 18th-century English portraiture, John Ingamells.

The Petty Papers

• Author(s): Sir William Petty

• Type: Book
• -
• Published: 1967
• -
• Publisher: Unknown

None

Lansdowne

• Author(s): Simon Kerry

• Categories: Biography & Autobiography

• Type: Book
• -
• Published: 2017
• -
• Publisher: Unicorn

A remarkable figure of British politics between the late Victorian and interwar years, Lord Lansdowne was among the last hereditary aristocrats to wield power by birth. Over the course of a distinguished fifty year career he served as Governor-General of Canada, Viceroy of India, Secretary of State for War, Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House of Lords.It was Lansdowne who engineered the crucial changes in British foreign policy and the burden of Britain's imperial commitments, led the House of Lords through one of the most divisive periods of modern times and at the end of the First World War became a figure of notoriety greater than any of the popular leaders of the day. Descended fro...