Cyrus West Field, American businessman and financier Size:XL: 100 x 80cm it had a 5

it had a 5

Half-length portrait of Thomas Birch in black clerical robes

Suffolk Lane

Duke of Gloucester shakes hands with England team watched by captain Jimmy Armfield

with some in the foreground who may be mud-larking - looking for anything washed up by the tide that they might use or sell

Cyrus West Field, American businessman and financier Size:XL: 100 x 80cm it had a 5Cyrus West Field, American businessman and financier, c1849 (1955). It was through Field's (1819 1892) suggestion and financial aid that the first Atlantic cable was laid. He later became a prominent promoter of New York's elevated railroad and owner of two newspapers. A print from Mathew Brady Historian with a Camera by James D Horan, Bonanza Books, New York, 1955.