Posted by Anthony Davis on November 7, 2011 at 15:04
Baron Hatherley by Julia Margaret Cameron taken in 1868. Signed in ink on the mount at the lower end 'From Life Registered Photograph Freshwater 1868. Copy right Julia Margaret Cameron.' The mount bears blind stamp of Messrs. Colnaghi 14 Pall Mall East. London. Pencilled notation on the back 'For the Window'. Obviously displayed by Colnaghi. William Page Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley PC, QC (29 November 1801 – 10 July 1881) was a British lawyer and statesman who served as a Liberal Lord Chancellor between 1868 and 1872 in William Ewart Gladstone's first ministry. In 1868 (when this photograph was made, he was made a Lord Justice of Appeal, but before the end of the year was selected by Gladstone to be Lord Chancellor and was raised to the peerage as Baron Hatherley, of Down Hatherley in the County of Gloucester.
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