ILLUSTRATIONS

1French engraving of the Gordon Riots

2Plaque commemorating the Great Fire of London, 1666

3The chapel at Lulworth Castle, Dorset

4Charles 11th Duke of Norfolk by Thomas Gainsborough

5King George III, 1810-15, by Edward Bird

6Robert Edward 9th Baron Petre

7‘A Great Man at his Private Devotion’, 1780

8Cardinal Ercole Consalvi

9Thorndon Hall, Essex

10Imaginary scene at Thorndon during the royal visit, 1778

11Maria Fitzherbert

12Henry Grattan

13‘The Apostates and the Extinguisher’, 1829

14Bishop John Milner

15George IV by Sir Thomas Lawrence

16The Coronation of King George IV, 1821

17‘A Voluptuary under the horrors of digestion’, 1792

18Elizabeth Marchioness Conyngham

19George IV in Sackville Street, Dublin, 1821

20Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan

21Richard Marquess Wellesley

22Daniel O’Connell, 1820

23Daniel O’Connell’s house in Merrion Square, Dublin

24‘How to keep one’s place’

25Thomas 2nd Earl of Longford

26Bernard 12th Duke of Norfolk

27Daniel O’Connell’s statue in Ennis, Co. Clare

28‘The Field of Battersea’, 1829

29Arthur 1st Duke of Wellington, 1829, by Sir Thomas Lawrence

30‘The Battle of the Petitions’, 1829

31‘No Peel’ on a door in Christ Church

32Sir Robert Peel

33John Bull being given his medicine

34‘Leaving the House of Lords Through the Assembled Commons’, 1829