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Radford, James, 1810-1894
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1810-1894
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Radford, James; son of Joseph Radford, Red Bank Foundry, Salford, iron founder, and Elizabeth Caroline Harvey ; b. Salford, Lancs., c.1810 ; landscape painter (already described as such in 1851 Census) ; Drawing Master Jan 1866 – Aug 1884 ; described by Sir Charles Fortescue-Brickdale (qv) as “a fine old fellow named Radford – over 6ft. high and broad in proportion – with one of the immense beards that those who could grow them delighted to display … a competent artist in water-colour .. also a quarter-master sergeant in the Artists Rifles” (Elizabethan, July 1939, 378) ; also taught at a school in Kensington and at Hyde Park College for Ladies ; living at 16 Sheffield Terrace, Campden Hill, Kensington, Middlesex, by 1851 (still there, widower, aged 61, 1871 Census, aged 70, 1881 Census, and aged 81, 1891 Census) ; m. 15 Jun 1844 Charlotte Ella, dau. of Robert Rickards MP, EICS Bombay, later East India merchant in London ; d. 24 Dec 1894.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2022
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.