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Walter Charles James, 1st Baron Northbourne

1816 - 1893

This person is the subject of ongoing research. We have started by researching their relationship to the enslavement of people.

Biographical notes

Politician and landowner.

National Gallery Trustee (1871–1893).

Slavery connections

No known connections with slavery.

Abolition connections

No known connections with abolition.

Bibliography

A. Cresswell, 'James, Walter Charles, first Baron Northbourne', in C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/55869
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History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
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J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/
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UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
Checked and not found — Item on publisher's website