Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian Sir Thomas Seymour Clifford Castle

Clifford Castle

Many experiments were under way to utilise electricity for public lighting in London

A man - possibly John Bull

Monument to Thomas Guy at Guy's Hospital

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian Sir Thomas Seymour Clifford CastleThomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian, c1890. Carlyle (1795 1881) wrote a history of the French Revolution which gained him popular as well as academic fame when it was published in 1837. He also wrote The Chartist in 1840, a book opposing conventional economic thinking. A lithograph from The Modern Portrait Gallery, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, Paris and New York, c1890.