Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, English poet and politician Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm 'Hercules and The Hydra'

'Hercules and The Hydra'

'The Tiger Carries off Miao Shan'

Plan for an ideal city

Judy Dunlop and Dian Miller the Bighton Promettes

and that compass needles point to the north magnetic pole

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, English poet and politician Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm 'Hercules and The Hydra'Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, English poet and politician, c1890. Milnes (1809 1885) was a member of the literary set known as the Apostles Club. Elected a Conservative MP for Pontefract in 1837, he became a political associate of Palmerston, who raised him to the peerage in 1863. A lithograph from The Modern Portrait Gallery, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, Paris and New York, c1890.