Figure
Category
Ephemera
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper
Order this imageCollection
Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 3131346.2
Summary
A black and white cut out picture of a saint with hallo blessing a cup, possibly Jesus Christ'. It is kept in the book 'The mate of the "Lily;" or, Notes from Harry Musgrave's log book.' by William Henry Giles Kingston (1814-1880) (record 3131346). William Henry Giles Kingston was born in Harley Street, London on 28 February 1814. He was the eldest son of Lucy Henry Kingston (d.1852) and his wife Frances Sophia Rooke (b.1789), daughter of Sir Giles Rooke, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. Kingston's paternal grandfather John Kingston (1736-1820) was a Member of Parliament who staunchly supported the Abolition of the Slave Trade, despite having a plantation in Demerara. His father Lucy entered into the wine business in Oporto, and Kingston lived there for many years, making frequent voyages to England and developing a lifelong affection for the sea. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and afterwards entered his father's wine business, but soon indulged in his natural bent for writing. His newspaper articles on Portugal were translated into Portuguese, and assisted the conclusion of the commercial treaty with Portugal in 1842, when he received from Donna Maria da Gloria an order of Portuguese knighthood and a pension.