1-273-621 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Alfred Ollivant, Bishop of Llandaff, 1878. He became the Bishop of Llandaff in 1849. His long episcopate of thirty-three years was marked by many reforms such as providing additional pastoral superintendence and church accomodation within the diocese. He also had a brilliant academic career. Among many other achievements he was awarded the Senior Chancellor's Medal, in 1821, which was then the highest classical distinction. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (Conducted by G. C. Whitfield.) (London, 1876-1883).