Autograph collector: George Gery Milner-Gibson-Cullum

George Gery Milner-Gibson Cullum (1857-1921) of Hardwick House, Bury St Edmunds was High Sheriff of Suffolk 1888 and Mayor of Bury St Edmunds 1913-14. He amassed a large library and shared the passion of many of wealth for autographs, being a vice-president of the Society of Archivists and Autograph Collectors.  His autograph collection is now held in Trinity College Library.

Although quite miscellaneous, the collection is particularly strong on European nobility. 37 popes are also represented as are 20 presidents of the USA.  It covers the 15th century through to the 20th.  A small selection follows below:

Marguerite of Angoulême (11 April 1492 – 21 December 1549), princess of France, Queen of Navarre and Duchess of Alençon and Berry

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pope Gregory XIII (7 January 1502 – 10 April 1585), commissioner and namesake of the Gregorian Calendar

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) , queen of England and Ireland

Credit: http://www.marileecody.com/gloriana/elizabethrainbow1.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658), Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland

Credit: http://www.lastoria.org/immagini/cromwell.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Louis XIV (5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), King of France and Navarre

Credit: EuroPicture.de

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Napoléon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), Emperor of the French

Credit: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Constable (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837), English Romantic painter

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), 16th president of the United States

Credit: photographer Alexander Gardner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Georges Bizet (25 October 1838 – 3 June 1875), French composer

Credit: http://www.metronimo.com/fr/portraits/show.php?start=0&file=bizet3.jpg&album=7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edward Lear (12 or 13 May 1812 – 29 January 1888), English artist, illustrator, author and poet

Credit: http://www.birdresearch.dk/dk/jgould.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892), Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland

Credit: Carte de Visite

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

William Ewart Gladstone (29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898), British liberal politician, Prime Minister

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900), Irish writer and poet

Credit: Library of Congress

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mark Twain, real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), author and humorist

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source of Milner-Gibson-Cullum text: Janus