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This Is An Actual Photograph Of A Man Born In 1755.


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Martin Routh was born in 1755 and died in 1854He was president of Magdalen College in Oxford from the year 1791 till his death (for 63 years). He is a significant symbol of the leap between the age of photography and the 18th century. His picture is courtesy of Mark Blandford Baker a photographer and Home Bursar of Magdalen. 

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