Thomas Herbert Maguire

Thomas Herbert Maguire (1821 – 1895) was an English artist and engraver, noted for his portraits of prominent figures.

Maguire was a brilliant pupil of Richard James Lane, one of the favourite collaborators of the Swiss portrait painter, Alfred Edward Chalon in the pages of the Illustrated London News.

The exact total of this series is slightly above 60 because some (e.g. Edwin Lankester) were re-drawn.

Henslow to Prince Albert when he inspected the Museum on the occasion of the 1851 Ipswich Congress of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

George Ransome resigned his position as founding Secretary of the Museum in 1852 and the cumulative series was then discontinued.