Sir Richard Airey mb-code U1187687 Tower of London under siege

Tower of London under siege during the riots of November 1830

and was eventually imprisoned and executed

Zoological study of a lion-tailed macaque or wanderoo Macacus silensus from India shown seated

Plate 23 from The zoological miscellany

Sir Richard Airey mb-code U1187687 Tower of London under siegeSir Richard Airey, 1878. Airey was Quarter Master General of the 1st Brigade of the Light Division, and was present at the battles of Alma and Inkermann during the Crimean War, and wrote the order for the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava. He was also Governor of Gibraltar. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc.