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John Ruskin, Henry James and the Shropshire Lads
Cynthia Gamble
Published 2008 by New European Publications Ltd.
ISBN 978-1-872410-68-5
John Ruskin and his Shropshire circle of friends
Dr. Cynthia Gamble writes about a number of people in the above publication. The intention of this project is to gather together GENi profiles for these people. Their connections and notes from the book will be added as I work my way through it! (CJB Sep 2014)
Please feel free to expand notes if you too have read the book!
Names mentioned
Henry Wentworth Acland (1815-1900)
who was one of Ruskin's closest friends.
Henry Brook Adams (1838-1918)
American Historian
Rawden Lubbock Brown (1803-1883)
Venetian Resident - friend of Edward Cheney
Edward Henshaw Cheney (1771-1848)
Collector of Art, painter who inherited Badger Hall in 1866
Harriet Cheney née Carr (1771-1848)
Painter
Robert Henry Cheney (1799-1866
painter
William Gershom Collingwood (1854-1932)
Ruskin's secretary
Richard Whiteman Fall (1820-1878)
Ruskin's first boyhood friend
George Forester (c. 1738-1811)
Charles George Milnes Gaskell (1842-1919)
Close friend of Henry James
James Milnes Gaskell (1810-1873)
Lady Catherine Milnes Gaskell (1857-1935) née Wallop
George Osborne Gordon (c. 1779-1822)
wine merchant
Osborne Gordon (1813-1883)
Constance (Connie) Hilliard (1852-1915)
Henry James (1843-1916)
American novelist
Rose La Touche (1848-1875)
Irish girl with whom Ruskin fell hopelessly in love
Henry George Liddell (1811-1898)
John Everett Millais (1829-1896)
Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (1809-1885)
Charles Thomas Newton (1816-1894)
Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908)
American writer and art historian
Jane Pritchard (1816-1892) née Gordon
John Pritchard Sr. (1759-1837)
Attorney and Banker
John Pritchard (1796-1891)
Barrister, banker, MP married Jane Gordon
Effie Ruskin née Gray (1828-1897)
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
John James Ruskin (1785-1864)
Wine merchant - John Ruskin's father
Margaret Ruskin née Cock (1781-1871)
John Ruskin's mother
Joseph Arthur Palliser Severn (1842-1931)
Painter
Joan Severn (née Agnew) - (1846-1924)
companion to Margaret Ruskin
this project is in History Link
