Title

William Lenthall, Speaker of the House of Commons, c1642 (1893). Artist: Unknown

Caption

William Lenthall, Speaker of the House of Commons, c1642 (1893). Born at Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, Lenthall (1591-1662) became Speaker of the House of Commons in the Long Parliament of 1640. When, in 1642, Charles I entered the Commons to arrest five opposition leaders, Lenthall refused to reveal their whereabouts. An illustration from A Short History of the English People, by J R Green, illustrated edition, Volume III, Macmillan and Co, London, New York, 1893.
The Print Collector collection

Date

1893

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C29_262

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (4,6Mb) / 11,7in x 16,7in / 3497 x 5000 (300dpi)

Keywords

people male man men politics law guy clothes color colour robes robe Parliament dress century lawyer House of Commons politician 17th century mace 19th century nineteenth century statesman Stewart Stuart seventeenth century The Print Collector Long Parliament parliamentarian Speaker of the House William Lenthall Unknown William Green John Richard Green John Richard Lenthall John Richard Green