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Description: | A leather bound album containing over 180 autographs and signed letters from local and national figures compiled by William Henry Robinson. It contains a separate hand-written index of entries in order they appear, in pencil and of unknown date and authorship. Although some signatures are illegible, a printed list is also included, compiled in 2009. The final few letters are addressed to Sir Arthur and Lady Hayter. The album includes (in no particular order): Political figures: Charles Forster MP Walsall, William Gladstone Prime minister, Justin McCarthy MP, Sir Richard Temple, Edward William Watkin, Lord Hatherton, Arthur Douglas Bateman Scott, Frank James, Henry Wiggin, Florence Fenwick Miller, Arthur D Hayter, Charles Bowen. Writers and historians include: Edward Augustus Freeman, Sir Wyke Bayliss, Francis and William Havergal, Thomas Hughes, Ryder Hagard, James Greenwood, S Stepniak, Israel Zanquill, William Henry Davenport, Adams, Max Mller, Sir Walter Besant, Samuel Timmins, W H Duigham, T Edgar Pemberton. Scientists: Sir Morrell Mackenzie, Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton, Thomas Henry Huxley, Richard Bowdler Sharp, Henry Enfield Ruscoe, Robert S Ball, C V Boys, Archibald Geikie, W H Wesley. Clergy: Edward Bickersteth- Dean of Lichfield, H France Hayhurst-Chaplain-Lamberth Palace, Rev. William Tuckwell, Edward Bradley, Samuel Reynolds Hole-Dean of Rochester. Others: John Francis Barnett, Walter Macfarren, Sister Dora, Lady Katherine Hardy, Sir Herbert Oakley, John Fullwood, Samuel Reynolds Hole. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Walsall Archives / Local History Centre | Rights holder: | n/a | Subjects: | Autograph albums | Temporal: | c1887-1901 | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | William Henry Robinson | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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