National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) · London, New York [etc.] Cassell and company, limited · leaf 316
discoverer. In 1767 he was appointed to conductan expedition into the South Pacific Ocean for geographical andastronomical purposes. In 1776 Cook again sailed for the Cape of GoodHope and the Pacific, and in 1778 the Sandwich Islands werediscovered. At Owyhee (or Hawaii), the largest amongst… … 302 THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. JOHN WILKES, M.P. 1727-1707. Drawn by Richard Earlom. A political character of considerable popularity, whose importance inhis day was exaggerated by the injudicious persistent proceedings of theGovernment against him. M.P. for Aylesbury in 1757 and 1761.In April,…
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