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GEORGE RICHMOND, RA (1809-1896) PORTRAIT OF EDWARD MEYRICK GOULBORN Signed and dated 1861, coloured chalks 59 x 43cm. Provenance: London, Abbott & Holder, November 1984 Literature: Raymond Lister, George Richmond (London, 1981), p158, ref.50, two sittings recorded in 1860 and 1861, total cost £42 * Goulborn (1818-1897) was educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1842 and became headmaster of Rugby before taking on a number of clerical roles throughout England, including Dean of Norwich, before finally retiring in 1889. He was an impassioned Conservative and a firm adherent to traditional orthodoxies within the Anglican church.