Richard Vernon (MP)
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Richard Vernon was a British horse breeder and trainer and a politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1754 and 1790.
Hilton Park, Staffordshire - seat of the Vernon family
Diomed "the Marvel"
Thomas Holcroft
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Thomas Holcroft was an English dramatist, miscellanist, poet and translator. He was sympathetic to the early ideas of the French Revolution and helped Thomas Paine to publish the first part of The Rights of Man.
Portrait, oil on canvas, of Thomas Holcroft (1745–1809) by John Opie (1761–1807)
'Thomas Holcroft' - William Daniell after George Dance the Younger, chalk and pencil drawing