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Toulouse-Lautrec

Portrait of Marcus Samuel

This cartoon accompanies a poem of the same name in which Punch puts forward the view that an artisan of the future must needs learn a craft and develop skills that will stand him in good stead

Fragments of stained glass in the window of the grand dining room

Robert wounding his father hide Toulouse-LautrecDuke Robert of Normandy wounding his father, King William I, Normandy, 1079 (1864). Robert Curthose (1051 1134) fighting his father, William the Conqueror (1027 1087) at the siege of the castle of Gerberoy, near the frontier of Normandy. William's eldest son, Robert rebelled against his father following a prank played upon him by two of his other brothers, William Rufus and Henry. He succeeded William as Duke of Normandy in 1087 but William Rufus