Recent Acquisitions

(Sir Thomas Fowell, 1786-1845, Philanthropist, Slave Trade Reformer)

(John Byam Liston Shaw, 1872-1919, Painter, Illustrator, Designer and Teacher, commonly known as Byam Shaw)

(Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, née Drabble, 1936-2023, Novelist, Poet and Booker Prize winner under the name A. S. Byatt, sister of Margaret Drabble)

(Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, née Drabble, 1936-2023, Novelist, Poet and Booker Prize winner under the name A. S. Byatt, sister of Margaret Drabble)

(Max, b. 1922, British Entertainer)

(Sir William Pollard, M.P., 1839-1917)

(George, 1st Viscount Torrington, 1663-1733, Admiral of the Fleet, 1st Lord of the Admiralty), Sir Richard HADDOCK (Henry Duffield1629-1715, Admiral, Comptroller of the Navy), Captain Robert SANDES (died 1721, Benefactor of Trinity Almshouses), Sir Henry JOHNSON (c.1659-1719, Master of Trinity House), Captain Sir William GIFFORD (c.1649-1724, Navy Officer and MP) and others

(George, 1st Viscount Torrington, 1663-1733, Admiral of the Fleet, 1st Lord of the Admiralty)

(Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957, American Naval Officer and Pioneering Aviator, Polar Explorer and Organiser of Polar Logistics)

(Anne Isabella Noel, née Millbanke, 1792-1860, 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron, wife of Lord Byron)

(George Anson, 1758-1793, Son of Vice-Admiral Hon. John Byron, uncle of the Poet Byron and cousin of Rear-Admiral Richard Byron)

(George Gordon, Lord, 1788-1824, Poet)]