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5 de out. de 2021 · Thomas Picton's Carmarthen obelisk to reference slavery links 200 memorials linked to slave trade and activists in Wales The new works are part of the Reframing Picton project being undertaken by ...
5 de out. de 2021 · Date: 2021-10-05. Today (5 October 2021) Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales has announced two new artist commissions which will reframe the legacy of Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton (1758-1815). The museum hopes that the new commissions will amplify the voices of those originally neglected in the telling of Picton’s story, or ...
Sir Thomas Picton, född 24 augusti 1758 i Pembrokeshire i Wales, död 18 juni 1815 vid Slaget vid Waterloo var en brittisk officer som deltog i flera olika krig för Storbritannien. Han föddes i Poyston i södra Pembrokeshire som yngste son till Thomas Picton. [ 1] Han gick med i armén 1771 och blev fänrik i det tolfte infanteriregementet ...
Picton, Sir Thomas (1758–1815). Soldier. Born in Pembrokeshire, he joined the army at 13, but was put on half-pay at the peace in 1783. In 1794 he volunteered for service in the West Indies and fought with distinction, being appointed governor of Trinidad, captured from the Spaniards, in 1797.
3 de nov. de 2021 · Mae portread o’r Is-gadfridog Syr Thomas Picton wedi ei dynnu lawr o arddangosfa yn Amgueddfa Cymru er mwyn cael ei ail-ddehongli a’i arddangos eto dros y misoedd nesaf. Roedd y portread gan yr artist Syr Martin Archer Shee wedi cael ei arddangos yn yr amgueddfa yng Nghaerdydd ers 1907. Cafodd Picton ei ystyried yn arwr am flynyddoedd, ond ...
Sir Thomas Picton was the most senior officer to die at the Battle of Waterloo, and this posthumous portrait is based on an earlier painting by Shee. Picton came to prominence during the Napoleonic Wars and fought with Wellington in the Peninsular campaign.
Free person of colour, slave-owner in Jamaica. Long-term partner and later wife of Thomas Legal Yates. Living in Britain from the mid-1830s until her death in 1873. Visit the people of interest section. Documents of Interest Windsor and Williamsfield Inventory of Slaves 1814 p8. Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 ...
