3789071 The Earl of Gloucester meets with Irish chiefs, 1874 (miniature); (add.info.: Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester (1373-1400) meets with Irish chiefs during Richard II\'s campaign and conquest of Ireland. In 1394 Richard II (1367-1400) left for Ireland with an English army in order to supress rebellious Irish lords in Anglo-Ireland. Illustration from the Harl manuscript, 1419. A Short History of The English People (Vol II) by John Richard Green (London: Macmillan, 1893) (originally published in 1874).); Lebrecht History.