Boer War: 1902 printed letter signed 'Ew Witton' (with the…
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Boer War: 1902 printed letter signed 'Ew Witton' (with the envelope on which it was sent) asking the recipient to sign a petition to the King for the release of Lt George Ramsdale Witton, who was sentenced to death for murder - together with 'Breaker' Morant & Peter Handcock - after the shooting of nine Boer prisoners. [Lt Gr Witton joined the Victorian Imperial Bushmen and served in the Bushveldt Carbineers in the Boer War in South Africa; Handcock & Morant were executed by firing squad on 27 February 1902; Lord Kitchener commuted Witton's sentence to life imprisonment, but after further protests he was released on 12 November 1904, later living in Gippsland & Queensland as a dairy farmer]

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  • Victorian Period - The Victorian period of furniture and decorative arts design covers the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. There was not one dominant style of furniture in the Victorian period. Designers used and modified many historical styles such as Gothic, Tudor, Elizabethan, English Rococo, Neoclassical and others, although use of some styles, such as English Rococo and Gothic tended to dominate the furniture manufacture of the period.

    The Victorian period was preceded by the Regency and William IV periods, and followed by the Edwardian period, named for Edward VII (1841 ? 1910) who was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India for the brief period from 1901 until his death in 1910.

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