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JOHN GILLIATT, OF BRIGG, LINCOLNSHIRE, ABOVE ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD, 1864. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
John Gilliatt, of Brigg, Lincolnshire, above one hundred years old, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Empringham, master of the Brigg Union Workhouse, of a '...remarkable veteran...born...according to his own belief, in the year 1761. If he be right in this date he has attained the age of 103...In his early manhood he was pressed into the Navy...He does not seem to have remained long at sea, for about 1791 he enlisted into the 7th Dragoons. This regiment being sent into Holland, he...[fought in] the campaign of 1793...in a personal conflict with a French cavalry soldier, he lost the middle finger of his left hand...Having been discharged...in consequence of the injury...Gilliatt returned to Lincolnshire...But a pressgang visited the house in pursuit of him, so he had to leap out of a window and run away...[and] enlisted into the Army once more...He soon joined his regiment in London. Being sometimes on guard about the palace, he was more than once familiarly addressed by King George III. and Queen Charlotte. His regiment was ordered to Ireland, where it remained five years, engaged in suppressing the Rebellion of 1798...John was invalided and pensioned on account of his partial blindness, caused by the heat and sand of Egypt'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. John Gilliatt, of Brigg, Lincolnshire, above one hundred years old, 1864. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
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BARON GROS, THE NEWLY-APPOINTED FRENCH AMBASSADOR AT THE COURT OF ST. JAMES'S, 1862. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
Baron Gros, the newly-appointed French Ambassador at the Court of St. James's, 1862. Engraving of a photograph by M. Alophe, photographer to the Emperor. In 1857, Baron Gros '...was sent to China...[as] Ambassador Extraordinary. There he cordially and most effectively supported Lord Elgin in the capture of Canton by the Allies, and governed that town for some time in concert with his Lordship. The single point of disagreement...was as to the policy of burning the Emperor of China's Summer Palace, to which the Baron was strongly opposed. In 1858, he signed, with the authorities of the Celestial Empire, the Treaty of Tien-Tsin; and...[in the] October following, at Jeddo, the capital of Japan, a treaty of commerce and friendship with the latter Power. Baron Gros was made Commander of the Legion of Honour...and...was called...to a seat in the Senate...Baron Gros, notwithstanding his seven decades, appears to be in the enjoyment of the most perfect health and vigour...The Baron's long acquaintance with English diplomatists, his well-known amicable disposition towards the English nation...and his amiability on all occasions, will assure to him a cordial reception in the distinguished capacity of Ambassador from Napoleon III. to this country'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862. Baron Gros, the newly-appointed French Ambassador at the Court of St. James's, 1862. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
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