Clarkson’s 3am text, Italian ancestry, and his Lions debut · The 42

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[15:06] Prendergast and Clarkson set for debuts v Argentina

Sam Prendergast and Thomas Clarkson are in line to make their Ireland debuts in Friday's meeting with Argentina, with both players named on the replacements bench, while Robbie Henshaw replaces Bundee Aki at centre.

https://www.rte.ie/sport/rugby/2024/1113/1480670-prendergast-and-clarkson-set-for-debuts-v-argentina/

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This evening I decided to pluck a portrait at random from the UK's National Portrait Gallery.

Having learned that the most recently catalogued painting has the number 7159, I specified that as the upper limit on a random number generator, which gave me the number 235.

I entered that number on the NPG's advanced search page, and was rather pleased with the result.

>>Thomas Clarkson devoted his life to abolitionism. His "An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species" (1786) brought him into association with Granville Sharp, William Wilberforce and other opponents of slavery; Clarkson joined them in forming a society for the abolition of the slave trade. He visited British ports to collect facts for his pamphlet "A Summary View of the Slave Trade and of the Probable Consequences of Its Abolition" (1787), and the evidence that he gathered was used in the antislavery campaign led by Wilberforce in Parliament. In 1807, a bill for the abolition of the slave trade finally was passed, and the next year Clarkson's two-volume history of the trade was published.<<

Richard Walker, "Regency Portraits", National Portrait Gallery, 1985, 113

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NPG 235; Thomas Clarkson - Portrait - National Portrait Gallery

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw01326/Thomas-Clarkson?search=ap&firstRun=true&title=&npgno=235&eDate=&lDate=&medium=&subj=&set=&portraitplace=&searchCatalogue=&ow=restrict&submitSearchTerm=Search&rNo=0