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Leighton

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Leighton [ˈleɪtən]
n
(Biographies / Leighton, Frederic (1830-1896) M, British, ARTS AND CRAFTS: painter, ARTS AND CRAFTS: sculptor) Frederic, 1st Baron Leighton of Stretton. 1830-96, British painter and sculptor of classical subjects: president of the Royal Academy (1878)


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Leighton a "sweet preacher," Helen - a "dear, delightful, heavenly-minded man"?
She had the small regular features, the blue eyes, and the broad low brow, which the Victorian painters, Lord Leighton, Alma Tadema, and a hundred others, induced the world they lived in to accept as a type of Greek beauty.
It touches the question of dimidiation or impalement in the coat of mine uncle, Sir John Leighton of Shropshire, who took unto wife the widow of Sir Henry Oglander of Nunwell.
 
 
 
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