Walter Fawkes

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J. M. W. Turner's 1816 painting Grouse Shooting on Beamsley Beacon - Fawkes is one of the subjects.
J. M. W. Turner's 1816 painting Grouse Shooting on Beamsley Beacon - Fawkes is one of the subjects[1].

Walter Ramsden Hawkesworth Fawkes (1769-1825) was a Yorkshire landowner, writer and MP. He was born in Guiseley as Walter Ramsden Hawkesworth and inherited Farnley Hall in 1792, at which point he assumed the surname Fawkes like his father before him.[2]

He was a close friend of the artist J.M.W. Turner and built a large collection of his works.[2]

He died in London in 1825.[2]

[edit] Selected Works

  • Chronology of the History of Modern Europe (1810)
  • The Englishman's Manual, or, A Dialogue between a Tory and a Reformer (1817)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Tate Gallery
  2. ^ a b c Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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