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The Middlesex Election - Mr. Sheriff Mechi, one of the Returning Officers, 1857. Creator: Unknown.

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The Middlesex Election - Mr. Sheriff Mechi, one of the Returning Officers, 1857. Engraving from a photograph by the Stereoscopic Company, of 'Mr. John Joseph Mechi, senior Sheriff of London and Middlesex...Of the antecedents of Mr. Mechi the Recorder gave the following interesting resume in presenting the new Sheriffs to the Barons of the Court of Exchequer...: In the person of Mr. John Joseph Mechi, senior Sheriff, and citizen and lorimer, and who was connected with the eastern division of the metropolis, they had a gentleman of Italian extraction, but a man who was proud to be numbered among the merchants of the city of London. Although he had sprung from the Italian race, who were remarkable for their cultivation of the arts and sciences, he was proud, he repeated, to be enrolled among the merchants and men of business of this country'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM23A76_394

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Droits gérés

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6,4Mo (426,0Ko) / 11,1cm x 14,3cm / 1315 x 1691 (300dpi)

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