Sir George Shaw-Lefevre KCB; La Reyne le veult. Issue No. 139. (Original Lithograph.)
Published by London: Vanity Fair., 1871
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Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Wittenborn Art Books
AbeBooks seller since June 12, 1998
Condition: Used - Good
£ 77.19
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Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 sheet of letterpress description. Very Good. Trimmed at bottom of page with some loss of text. Published in Vanity Fair, 1 July 1871.Sir John George Shaw-Lefevre KCB (24 January 1797 - 20 August 1879) was a British barrister, Whig politician and civil servant.Shaw-Lefevre was the son of Charles Shaw-Lefevre by his wife Helen, daughter of John Lefevre. Charles Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Viscount Eversley, was his elder brother. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was Senior Wrangler in 1818, and was called to the Bar, Inner Temple. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1820. He was returned to Parliament for Petersfield in December 1832, but was unseated on petition in March 1833. He served under Lord Grey as Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies in 1834. The latter year Shaw-Lefevre was appointed a Poor Law Commissioner after the passing of the Poor Law Amendment Act, which he remained until 1841. Between 1856 and 1875 he served as Clerk of the Parliaments. He also helped found the University of London and served as its Vice-Chancellor for many years. He was made a KCB in 1857 for his public services.Shaw-Lefevre married Rachel Emily, daughter of Ichabod Wright, in 1824. They had one surviving son, George, who became a prominent politician and was ennobled as Baron Eversley, and five daughters. One daughter, Madeleine Shaw-Lefevre, was the first Principal of Somerville Hall; another daughter, Rachel, married Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, son of the Prime Minister the 4th Earl of Aberdeen.Shaw-Lefevre died in August 1879, aged 82. His wife lived for six more years before dying in February 1885.The Lefevre Peninsula in South Australia, was named by Governor John Hindmarsh on 3 June 1837 after Shaw-Lefevre, who was one of South Australia's Colonisation Commissioners.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Sir George Shaw-Lefevre KCB; La Reyne le veult. Issue No. 139. (Original Lithograph.)
- Author
- Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)
- Publisher
- London: Vanity Fair.
- Publication year
- 1871
- Condition
- Good
- Seller catalogs
- Prints British
Wittenborn Art Books
San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
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We deal in antiquarian books, prints, posters, paintings and other art related material. We are also a publisher and distributer of art reference books, primarily catalogues raisonnés. We are related to Alan Wofsy Fine Arts and Dow & Frosini. Look for us at www.art-books.com
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Art Reference Books, Mexican Movie posters, Picasso, Books with original graphics, San Francisco and California, Leonard Baskin, Judaica graphics and the Haggadah, Original prints and posters, Bibliographies, Silver and Decorative Art booksSeller's business information
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