Mark Girouard
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Mark Girouard was a British architectural historian. He was an authority on the country house, and Elizabethan and Victorian architecture.
Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire – Girouard's pioneering study of its architect, Robert Smythson, established his reputation
Saul Solomon
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Saul Solomon was an influential liberal politician of the Cape Colony, a British colony in what is now South Africa. Solomon was an important member of the movement for responsible government and an o
Mark Girouard
…Girouard died from heart failure at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London, on 16 August 2022, aged 90. He wrote of his ancestral connection to Saul Solomon, a pioneer liberal politician and businessman in Cape Colony, and his wife Georgiana Solomon, a social activist and suffragette. Girouard was descended…
Saul Solomon. Member of Parliament for Cape Town
The Cape Colony in 1878, on the eve of the Confederation wars
Reactionary cartoon depicting Saul Solomon with the prominent anti-imperialist leaders of southern Africa as his "pets". The pets shown are Zulu King Cetshwayo, the Beaufort lion John Molteno (Cape Prime Minister), and John X Merriman (shown as a monkey).