Now! Then! Tag: Fawkes (né Hawkesworth), Walter Ramsden (1769-1825)

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Yorkshire landowner, writer, abolitionist Whig and MP (Yorkshire 1806-07), intimate friend and patron of J.M.W. Turner, perhaps distantly related to Guy Fawkes on his mother's side.

6 December 1794: London painter Joseph Farington gets gossip from a pupil about colleague William Hodges’ visit to Walter Fawkes at Farnley Hall, some years before Fawkes met Turner
4 May 1807: Lord Milton welcomes 10,000 to his 21st birthday barbecue at Wentworth Woodhouse, Rotherham, during his campaign to be elected MP for the Whigs
2 May 1812: The Otley origins of Turner’s oil of Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps in a snow storm, unveiled today to the public at the Royal Academy summer exhibition in London
24 December 1849: Turner writes from Chelsea to the son of his patron Walter Fawkes – dead for 24 years – thanking him for the annual goose pie from Farnley Hall

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