Early New Zealand Photographers: The Laurence Eagle Collection

The

Laurence Eagle Collection

Part Two

Laurence Eagle

George Augustus Selwyn

born 5 April 1809 – died 11 April 1878

First Anglican Bishop of New Zealand. He was Bishop of New Zealand (which included Melanesia) from 1841 to 1869. His diocese was then subdivided and Selwyn was Metropolitan (later called Primate) of New Zealand from 1858 to 1868. Returning to Britain, Selwyn served as Bishop of Lichfield from 1868 to 1878.

by Mason and Co., Old Bond Street, London

Sir Samuel White Baker, KCB, FRS, FRGS

born 8 June 1821 – died 30 December 1893

English explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist. He also held the titles of Pasha and Major-General in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. He served as the Governor-General of the Equatorial Nile Basin (today's South Sudan and Northern Uganda) between April 1869 and August 1873, which he established as the Province of Equatoria. He is mostly remembered as the first European to visit Lake Albert, as an explorer of the Nile and interior of central Africa, and for his exploits as a big game hunter in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America.

by H. J. Whitlock, 11 New Street, Birmingham

Otto von Bismarck
Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg
born 1 April 1815 – died 30 July 1898

Conservative German statesman and diplomat. From his origins in the upper class of Junker landowners, Bismarck rose rapidly in Prussian politics, and from 1862 to 1890 he was the minister president and foreign minister of Prussia.

photographer unknown

Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

born 3 November 1825 – died 1 March 1899

Miscellaneous writer, son of Rev. Dr. Boyd of Glasgow, was originally intended for the English Bar but entered the Church of Scotland, and was minister latterly at St. Andrews. Author of "Recreations of a Country Parson; 1859.

by Elmslie William Dallas, 125 Princes Street, Edinburgh

The Rt Hon. John Bright M.P.
born 16 November 1811 – died 27 March 1889
British Radical and Liberal statesman, one of the greatest orators of his generation and a promoter of free trade policies.

by W. & D. Downey, 9 Eldon Square, Newcastle on Tyne

Edward Henry Stanley

15th Earl of Derby, KG, PC, FRS

born 21 July 1826 – died 21 April 1893

British statesman. He served as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs twice, from 1866 to 1868 and from 1874 to 1878, and also twice as Colonial Secretary in 1858 and from 1882 to 1885.

by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
albumen carte-de-visite, 1861

by John Jabez Edwin Mayall, 224 Regent Street, London

Edward Henry Stanley

15th Earl of Derby, KG, PC, FRS

born 21 July 1826 – died 21 April 1893

British statesman. He served as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs twice, from 1866 to 1868 and from 1874 to 1878, and also twice as Colonial Secretary in 1858 and from 1882 to 1885.

by Henry Joseph Whitlock, 11 New Street, Birmingham
albumen carte-de-visite, circa late 1860s

Famille Impériale de France

Portraits Historiques.

by Neurdein, Editeur Photographe, Place de la Bourse, 8 Rue des Filles St Thomas, Paris

Charles John Huffam Dickens

born 7 February 1812 – died 9 June 1870

English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius.

by John and Charles Watkins, 34 Parliament Street, London

Benjamin Disraeli

1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, DL, JP, FRS

born 21 December 1804 – died 19 April 1881

British statesman and Conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

by W. & D. Downey, 9 Eldon Square, Newcastle on Tyne

Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi

born 4 July 1807 – died 2 June 1882

Italian general, patriot, revolutionary and republican. He contributed to Italian unification and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy. He is considered one of the greatest generals of modern times and one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland", along with Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Victor Emmanuel II of Italy and Giuseppe Mazzini. Garibaldi is also known as the "Hero of the Two Worlds" because of his military enterprises in South America and Europe.

photographer unknown

William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS

born 29 December 1809 – died 19 May 1898

British statesman and Liberal politician. In a career lasting over 60 years, he served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four non-consecutive terms beginning in 1868 and ending in 1894. He also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times, serving over 12 years.

by John Jabez Edwin Mayall, 91 Kings Road, Brighton and 224 Regent Street, London W.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

born 4 July 1804 – died 19 May 1864*

American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion.

*not 1870 as stated here

by John Jabez Edwin Mayall, 91 Kings Road, Brighton and 224 Regent Street, London W.

William Holman Hunt OM

born 2 April 1827 – died 7 September 1910

English painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid colour, and elaborate symbolism. These features were influenced by the writings of John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle, according to whom the world itself should be read as a system of visual signs. For Hunt it was the duty of the artist to reveal the correspondence between sign and fact. Of all the members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Hunt remained most true to their ideals throughout his career. He was always keen to maximise the popular appeal and public visibility of his works.

by Elliott and Fry, 55 Baker Street, Portman Square, London

Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA

born 8 June 1829 – died 13 August 1896

English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded at his family home in London, at 83 Gower Street (now number 7). Millais became the most famous exponent of the style, his painting Christ in the House of His Parents (1849–50) generating considerable controversy.

by John and Charles Watkins, 34 Parliament Street, London

John Keble

born 25 April 1792 – died 29 March 1866

English Anglican priest and poet who was one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement. Keble College, Oxford, was named after him. Author of The Christian Year, a book of poems for the Sundays and feast days of the church year.

Charlotte Keble nee Clarke

born 1806 - died 12 May 1866

John Keble married Charlotte Clarke, the younger sister of his brother's wife. Her father, the Revd George Clarke (d. 1809), had been rector of Maisey Hampton near Fairford; the Keble and Clarke families were old friends as well as near neighbours. George Clarke had been up at Oxford with John Keble senior in the 1760s, and the Keble and Clarke children had been friends since childhood.

photograph by R. H. Preston, Penzance.

Charles Kingsley

born 12 June 1819 – died 23 January 1875)

A broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives, which failed, but encouraged later working reforms. He was a friend and correspondent of Charles Darwin.

by Elliott and Fry, 55 Baker Street, Portman Square, London

David Livingstone

born 19 March 1813 – died 1 May 1873

Scottish physician, Congregationalist, and pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century Victorian era. He had a mythic status that operated on a number of interconnected levels: Protestant missionary martyr, working-class "rags-to-riches" inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of British commercial and colonial expansion.

unknown photographer

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

born 27 February 1807 – died 24 March 1882

American poet and educator. His original works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the fireside poets from New England.

by William Notman, Montreal
albumen carte-de-visite, 1862

George MacDonald

born 10 December 1824 – died 18 September 1905

Scottish author, poet and Christian Congregational minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of modern fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll. In addition to his fairy tales, MacDonald wrote several works of Christian theology, including several collections of sermons.

by Elliott and Fry, 55 Baker Street, Portman Square, London

George Peabody

born 18 February 1795 – died 4 November 1869

American financier and philanthropist. He is widely regarded as the father of modern philanthropy.

Born into a poor family in Massachusetts, Peabody went into business in dry goods and later into banking. In 1837 he moved to London (which was then the capital of world finance) where he became the most noted American banker and helped to establish the young country's international credit. Having no son of his own to whom he could pass on his business, Peabody took on Junius Spencer Morgan as a partner in 1854 and their joint business would go on to become the global financial services firm J.P. Morgan & Co. after Peabody's 1864 retirement.

by John Jabez Edwin Mayall, 91 Kings Road, Brighton and 224 Regent Street, London W.
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s

Henry John Temple

3rd Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, PC, FRS

born 20 October 1784 – died 18 October 1865)

British statesman who was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. Palmerston dominated British foreign policy during the period 1830 to 1865, when Britain stood at the height of its imperial power. He held office almost continuously from 1807 until his death in 1865. He began his parliamentary career as a Tory, defected to the Whigs in 1830, and became the first prime minister from the newly formed Liberal Party in 1859. He was highly popular with the British public. David Brown argues that "an important part of Palmerston's appeal lay in his dynamism and vigour".

by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company

albumen carte-de-visite, 1860-1865

Sir Richard Owen KCB FRMS FRS

born 20 July 1804 – died 18 December 1892

English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist. Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils.

Owen produced a vast array of scientific work, but is probably best remembered today for coining the word Dinosauria (meaning "Terrible Reptile" or "Fearfully Great Reptile"). An outspoken critic of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, Owen agreed with Darwin that evolution occurred, but thought it was more complex than outlined in Darwin's On the Origin of Species. Owen's approach to evolution can be considered to have anticipated the issues that have gained greater attention with the recent emergence of evolutionary developmental biology.

by W. & D. Downey, 9 Eldon Square, Newcastle on Tyne

Wilhelm I
born 22 March 1797 – died 9 March 1888,

King of Prussia from 2 January 1861 and German Emperor from 18 January 1871 until his death in 1888.

by L. Hasse & Comp.

Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke

born 26 October 1800 – died 24 April 1891

Prussian field marshal. The chief of staff of the Prussian Army for thirty years, he is regarded as the creator of a new, more modern method of directing armies in the field. He commanded troops in Europe and the Middle East, in the Second Schleswig War, Austro-Prussian War and Franco-Prussian War.

by L. Haase & Comp.

Alfred Tennyson

1st Baron Tennyson FRS

born 6 August 1809 – died 6 October 1892

English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu". He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830. "Claribel" and "Mariana", which remain some of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were included in this volume. Although described by some critics as overly sentimental, his verse soon proved popular and brought Tennyson to the attention of well-known writers of the day, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tennyson's early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

by John Jabez Edwin Mayall, 90 Kings Road, Brighton and 224 Regent Street, London W.
albumen carte-de-visite

William Makepeace Thackeray

born 18 July 1811 – died 24 December 1863

British novelist, author and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1848 novel Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of British society, and the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon,

by L. Caldesi and Co.

albumen carte-de-visite

Sir William Sterndale Bennett

born 13 April 1816 – died 1 February 1875

English composer, pianist, conductor and music educator. At the age of ten Bennett was admitted to the London Royal Academy of Music (RAM), where he remained for ten years. By the age of twenty, he had begun to make a reputation as a concert pianist, and his compositions received high praise.

by The London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company

Sir Charles Hallé

born Karl Halle 11 April 1819 – died 25 October 1895

Anglo-German pianist and conductor, and founder of The Hallé orchestra in 1858.

by Elliott and Fry, 55 Baker Street, Portman Square, London

Walter Kerr Hamilton

born 16 November 1808 – died 1 August 1869

Church of England priest, Bishop of Salisbury from 1854 until his death.

by Mason and Co., 28 Old Bond Street, London

not known

by James Laing, Photographer, Castle Street, Shrewsbury

John Mason Neale

born 24 January 1818 – died 6 August 1866

English Anglican priest, scholar and hymn-writer. He worked and wrote on a wide range of holy Christian texts, including obscure medieval hymns, both Western and Eastern. Among his most famous hymns is the 1853 Good King Wenceslas, set on Boxing Day. An Anglo-Catholic, Neale's works have found positive reception in high-church Anglicanism and Western Rite Orthodoxy.

by William Walker & Sons, 64 Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, London
albumen carte-de-visite

Henry Phillpotts

born 6 May 1778 – died 18 September 1869

Anglican Bishop of Exeter from 1830 to 1869. One of England's longest serving bishops since the 14th century, Phillpotts was a striking figure of the 19th-century Church. by William Walker & Sons, 64 Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, London
albumen carte-de-visite, 1863

James Atlay

born 3 July 1817 – died 24 December 1894

English churchman, Bishop of Hereford from 1868 to 1894. By Henry Peach Robinson, 16 Upper Parade, Leamington

John Lonsdale

born 17 January 1788 – died 19 October 1867

English clergyman, who was the third Principal of King's College, London, and later served as Bishop of Lichfield.

by William Edward Kilburn, 222 Regent Street, London

Edward Meyrick Goulburn

born 11 February 1818 – died 2 or 3 May 1897

English churchman.
Son of Mr Serjeant Edward Goulburn, M.P., recorder of Leicester, and nephew of the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn, chancellor of the exchequer in the ministries of Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington, he was born in London, and was educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford. In 1839 he became fellow and tutor of Merton, and was ordained in 1842. For some years he held the living of Holywell, Oxford, and was chaplain to Samuel Wilberforce, bishop of the diocese. In 1850 he delivered the Bampton Lectures at Oxford on The Resurrection of the Body. In 1849 he had succeeded Tait as headmaster of Rugby, but in 1857 he resigned, and accepted the charge of Quebec Chapel, Marylebone.

In 1858 he became a prebendary of St Paul's, and in 1859 vicar of St John's, Paddington. In 1866 he was made Dean of Norwich, and in that office exercised a long and marked influence on church life. A strong Conservative and a churchman of traditional orthodoxy, he was a keen antagonist of higher criticism and of all forms of rationalism.

His Thoughts on Personal Religion (1862) and The Pursuit of Holiness were well received.

by Poulton, London

Samuel Wilberforce, FRS

born 7 September 1805 – died 19 July 1873

English bishop in the Church of England, and the third son of William Wilberforce [a major campaigner against the slave trade and slavery]. Known as "Soapy Sam", Wilberforce was one of the greatest public speakers of his day. He is now best remembered for his opposition to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution at a debate in 1860.

by Elliott and Fry, 55 Baker Street, Portman Square, London

Charles Thomas Longley

born 28 July 1794 – died 27 October 1868

Bishop in the Church of England. He served as Bishop of Ripon, Bishop of Durham, Archbishop of York and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1862 until his death.

by John Jabez Edwin Mayall, 224 Regent Street, London

Henry Alford

born 7 October 1810 – died 12 January 1871

English churchman, theologian, textual critic, scholar, poet, hymnodist, and writer.

He had been the friend of most of his eminent contemporaries, and was much beloved for his amiable character. The inscription on his tomb, chosen by himself, is Diversorium Viatoris Hierosolymam Proficiscentis ("the lodging place of a traveler on his way to Jerusalem").

by The London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company

Charles John Ellicott

born 25 April 1819 - died 15 October 1905

A distinguished English Christian theologian, academic and churchman. He briefly served as Dean of Exeter, then Bishop of the united see of Gloucester and Bristol.

by Mason and Co., 28 Old Bond Street, London.

William Jacobson

born 18 July 1803 – died 13 July 1884

Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University (1848–1865) and Bishop of Chester (1865–1884).

by John Watkins, 34 Parliament Street, London.

Miss Julie Hamilton

(1829-19..), actress at the Variety Theatre

by Charles Reutlinger, 21 Boulevard Montmartre, Paris

Adelina Patti

born 19 February 1843 – died 27 September 1919

Italian 19th-century opera singer, earning huge fees at the height of her career in the music capitals of Europe and America. She first sang in public as a child in 1851, and gave her last performance before an audience in 1914. Along with her near contemporaries Jenny Lind and Thérèse Tietjens, Patti remains one of the most famous sopranos in history, owing to the purity and beauty of her lyrical voice and the unmatched quality of her bel canto technique.

by Charles Reutlinger, 21 Boulevard Montmartre, Paris

Adelina Patti as Zerlina in Don Giovanni.

Camille Silvy, 38 Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, London

Jules Léotard

born 1 August 1838 – died 16 August 1870)

French acrobatic performer and aerialist who developed the art of trapeze. He also created and popularized the one-piece gym wear that now bears his name and inspired the 1867 song "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze", sung by George Leybourne.

photographer unknown

Charles Sherwood Stratton

born 4 January 1838 – died 15 July 1883

Better known by his stage name "General Tom Thumb", was an American dwarf who achieved great fame as a performer under circus pioneer P. T. Barnum.

Mercy Lavinia Warren Stratton née Bump

born 31 October 1841 – 25 November 1919

was an American proportionate dwarf, who was a circus performer and the wife of Charles Sherwood Stratton (known as General Tom Thumb). She was known as a performer and for her appearance in one silent film, The Lilliputians Courtship (1915).