The Right Hon Cowper-Temple

Made:
1876 in England
photographer:
Lock and Whitfield
The Right Hon Cowper-Temple

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A Woodburytype entitled 'The Right Hon Cowper-Temple' taken by Lock and Whitfield in 1876. This Woodburytype is taken from a series of seven volumes entitled 'Men of Mark'. Published between 1876 and 1883, each volume featured 36 portraits of prominent men of the time.

A Woodburytype entitled 'The Right Hon Cowper-Temple' taken by Lock and Whitfield in 1876.

William Francis Cowper-Temple (1811-1888) was a Liberal MP best known for the amendment, the 'Cowper-Temple clause'. Introduced into the Education Bill of 1870, it ensured religious instruction in state schools was inter-denominational.

This Woodburytype is taken from a series of seven volumes entitled 'Men of Mark'. Published between 1876 and 1883, each volume featured 36 portraits of prominent men of the time. A brief biographical essay by Thompson Cooper (1837-1904) accompanied each portrait.

Details

Category:
Photographs
Collection:
Kodak Collection
Object Number:
1990-5036/6007/8
Materials:
paper
type:
photograph and woodburytype
credit:
The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford