Initial letter 'O' Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Vice-Chancellor Sir C Hall

Vice-Chancellor Sir C Hall

Details of the dog are given in the Royal Society's Journal Book [JBO/10] at a meeting of 29 May 1700: 'A person shew'd a monstrous puppy

Virginia was vehemently opposed to the abolition of slavery

seated in the Royal Society's Presidential chair surmounted by its coat of arms

although he is best remembered for playing the circus strongman Eugen Sandow in the Oscar-winning The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

Initial letter 'O' Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Vice-Chancellor Sir C HallInitial letter 'O', 14th century, (1843). Illustration from Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries, by Henry Shaw, (London, 1843).