#parlimentarian

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Dr Sachchidanand Sinha (10 November 1871 – 6 March 1950) was an Indian lawyer, parliamentarian, and journalist.

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I’m in my college’s SGA :D

Sweet geezus I’m fulltime asst manager and a student and now SGA

what am i doing to myself

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Colonel Alexander Popham

Parliamentary member and Colonel of the Littlecote garrison painted on a horse in 1650 by an unknown artist. This painting hangs in the National Armies Museum in Leeds.

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"England's Ark Secured and the Enemies to the Parliament and Kingdom Overwhelmed" 1645-46

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Portrait of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)

Circle of Robert Walker 

This portrait is a contemporary replica of Walker’s celebrated likeness of Oliver Cromwell. As with the tradition of royal portraiture before the Civil War, there was great demand for portraits of Cromwell during the interregnum, as a means of displaying political loyalty to the new regime.

The predominant feature of Cromwell’s portraits is their martial spirit, and he is invariably portrayed, as here, in armour. Almost all parliamentarian portraits were defined by a similar military spirit, even if, as in this case, the armour was outdated and unsuited to the actual battles of the Civil War. This curious fact was due not to fashion or tradition, but to the more prosaic reality that the portrait poses, and costumes, were in fact direct copies from Van Dyck’s royalist portraits of the 1630s. That these Van Dyckian poses had previously been used to depict staunch royalists is an irony that seems not to have bothered the victorious parliamentarians. Instead, they saw the Van Dyckian model as symbolic of the governing class, and thus fit for adding an aura of power to their own images, just as Oliver Cromwell adopted the monarchical practice of placing his own portrait, in profile, on the coinage. Indeed, Robert Walker has been criticised as unoriginal in finding no new idiom to replace the courtly manner of Van Dyck. He is recorded as saying ''if I could do better I would not do Vandickes'', but this must be seen as testament to the all-pervading influence of Van Dyck whose shadow stretched over English painting for over a century after his death.

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Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron (17 January 1612 – 12 November 1671) was a general and parliamentary commander-in-chief during the English Civil War. His dark hair and eyes and a swarthy complexion earned him the nickname Black Tom.