CATALOGUE OF THE THIRD AND CONCLUDING EXHIBITION OF NATIONAL PORTRAITS COMMENCING WITH THE FORTIETH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF GEORGE THE THIRD AND ENDING WITH THE YEAR 1867, ON LOAN TO THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM, APRIL 13th, 1868. With Gift Plate from the South Kensington Science & Art Department to the Lancashire Independent College, for the Loan of a Portrait of Thomas Raffles (1788-1863)

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Original antique catalogue. Published by Strangeways and Walden, Leicester Square. Octavo Hardback. Half leather with green cloth. Marbled endpapers. Measures approx. 10.25" x 7.5" (26cm x 19cm). Not illustrated. 209pp, inc. index. Aforementioned book-plate to front pastedown; 'Raffles. see No. 495.' Thomas Raffles (1788?1863) was an English Congregational minister, known as a dominant nonconformist figure at the Great George Street Congregational Church in Liverpool, and as an abolitionist and historian. With George Hadfield, Raffles was one of the main founders in 1816 of Blackburn Academy for the education of Independent ministers, where Joseph Fletcher was the first theological tutor. The move of the institution to Manchester, as the Lancashire Independent College, was largely due to Raffles. From March 1839 till his death he was chairman of the education committee, and raised a large part of the money for the existing college buildings at Whalley Range, near Manchester, opened on 26 April 1843. The aim of the Lancashire Independent College was a project of the Lancashire Congregational Union to provide higher education for Non-Conformists who were excluded from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge until 1871. Leather scuffed and rubbed with partial surface loss. Discolouration to cloth. Old reinforcement to inner pastedown hinges. Partial tanning to endpapers. Occasional faint marking here and there to innards, though contents remain clean and bright nonetheless. Binding sound. Remains a good original example. Please see photos for further detail. Seller Inventory # 000257

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Title: CATALOGUE OF THE THIRD AND CONCLUDING ...

Publisher: Strangeways and Walden

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good