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James Baron Dunfermline
JAMES ABERCROMBY, first baron DUNFERMLINE Lawyer, statesman, speaker of the House of Commons Date: 1776 - 1858

Charles Dilke as Mp
SIR CHARLES WENTWORTH DILKE Statesman, depicted in the act of addressing the House of Commons. Date: 1843 - 1911

Chas. Wolfran Cornwall
CHARLES WOLFRAN CORNWALL English statesman, Speaker of the House of Commons. Date: 1737 - 1789

Charles Baron Colchester
CHARLES ABBOT, first baron COLCHESTER Statesman, Speaker of the House of Commons. Date: 1757 - 1829

Neville Chamberlain
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN Speaking in the House of Commons. Date: 1869 - 1940

John Bright as a Lord
JOHN BRIGHT, statesman, depicted - improbably ! - as seated in the House of Lords - which he had criticised as a refuge for worn-out members of the House of Commons. Date: 1811 - 1889

Beresford in Commons
Lord CHARLES WILLIAM BERESFORD, naval commander, addresses the House of Commons on the state of the Navy, in 1888. Date: 1846 - 1919

Francis Rous, Speaker
FRANCIS ROUS Speaker of the House of Commons, Puritan, writer. Date: 1579 - 1659

House of Commons 1970S
The empty chamber Date: 1970s

Gladstone / Commons 1892
William Gladstone, as Leader of the Opposition, addresses the chamber Date: June 1892

Je Denison / Speaker
JOHN EVELYN DENISON Viscount Ossington English statesman, Speaker of the House of Commons from 1857 to 1872 Date: 1800 - 1873

House of Commons Lobby
Politicians gather in the Lobby of the House of Commons Date: 1892

Gladstone / Commons / 1880
The Liberal Opposition Front Bench, including the leader William Gladstone, during a late sitting of the House. Date: circa 1877

Sir John Glanville
Sir John GLANVILLE speaker of the House of Commons Date: 1586 - 1661

James Abercromby, Speaker
JAMES ABERCROMBY, first baron Dunfermline speaker of the House of Commons Date: 1776 - 1858

James William Lowther
JAMES WILLIAM LOWTHER first viscount Ullswater statesman, speaker of the House of Commons, in his ceremonial robes Date: 1855 - 1949

Charles Shaw-Lefevre
Sir CHARLES SHAW-LEFEVRE, viscount Eversley Lawyer and statesman, Speaker of the House of Commons in 1857 Date: 1794 - 1888

Henry Grattan / Kenny / Lewi
HENRY GRATTAN Irish politician, moving the Declaration of Rights in the Irish House of Commons, 16 April 1782 Date: 1746 - 1820

Disraeli / Furniss / 1882
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Earl of Beaconsfield, Conservative MPs last appearance in the Peers Gallery of the House of Commons Date: 1804 - 1881

Disraeli / Furniss
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Earl of Beaconsfield, Conservative MPs last appearance in the Peers Gallery of the House of Commons Date: 1804 - 1881

Addison / Hogarth / Buttons
JOSEPH ADDISON Essayist, poet and statesman at Buttons Coffee House in Covent Garden, London Date: 1672 - 1719

Henry Viscount Hampden
Sir Henry Bouverie William Brand, first viscount HAMPDEN statesman, speaker of the House of Commons before his elevation to the peerage Date: 1814 - 1892

Parliament reporters gallery 1882
Reporters Gallery in the House of Commons Date: 1882

SIR HBW Brand, Speaker of the House of Commons
SIR HENRY BOUVERIE WILLIAM BRAND Speaker of the House of Commons Date: 1814 - 1892

House of Commons
Ladies are allowed to listen to the men as they debate the future of the country in the House of Commons Date: 1893

Effigy of Richard Vernon
SIR RICHARD VERNON - aka Richard Pembruge (speaker in the House of Commons) Date: ? - 1451

Opening of Parliament
Queen Victoria opens Parliament, with the reading of the Queens Speech in the House of Lords to members of the Commons and Lords. Date: circa 1841

Burke (Gillray)
EDMUND BURKE statesman, depicted giving his notorious dagger speech in the Commons, 28 December 1792 Date: 1729 - 1797

William Henry Smith at his desk
William Henry Smith (18251891), Statesman and newsagent reading at his desk, 1825 - 1891

Parliament / Opening / 1847
In Victorias absence, the Chief Commissioner reads the Queens speech to the members of the Commons and Lords. Date: 18 November 1847

Paranormal apparation: shining infant & Viscount Castlereagh
Robert Stewart(1769-1822), Viscount Castlereagh, staying in an Irish castle, is visited by this shining infant, known to appear there; later he sees it in the Commons. Date: circa 1800

Nancy Viscountess Astor
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879 - 1964), first female Member of Parliament to take her seat, American citizen who moved to England at age 26

Churchill as Leader of the Opposition in House of Commons
The devaluation debate in the House of Commons: Winston Churchill, then Leader of the Opposition, making a speech in which he accused Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer

Cartoon, True Reform of Parliament, ie Patriots lighting a Revolutionary Bonfire in New Palace Yard, by James Gillray. Showing Sir Francis Burdett at the centre

The Parrot, by H. M. Bateman, WW1 cartoon, 1918
" THE PARROT" In the first half of the cartoon a young politician is shown standing up in the Commons during WWI claiming that the country has reached the extreme crisis of the war

Sir Edward Grey in parliament on the eve of WWI
The Foreign Minister, Sir Edward Grey (1862 - 1933), making his momentous statement on the eve of World War I at the House of Commons. Date: 3rd August 1914

Asquith, Herbert Henry, 1st Earl Of Oxford And Asquith (1852-1928). Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916. United Kingdom (1914)

Wotton, Sir Henry (1568-1639). English author, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614 and 1625. Engraving

The Ladies Lords v. Commons golf match
The golf match took place at Coombe Hill, Surrey and ended in victory for the Commons: Miss Seton Karr (Commons); The Dowager Countess of Wilton (Lords) and Mrs Olaf Hambro (Commons). Date: 1919

Suffragette Deputation June 1909 Programme
A souvenir and programme announcing the Deputation to the Prime Minister, Asquith, at the House of Commons on Tuesday June 29th, 1909, at 8 p.m

Macmillan speaking inn the House, Profumo Scandal
" We have not been parties to deception." Artists impression by Juliet Pannett, special artist for the ILN, showing Prime Minister Harold Macmillan

In the Lobby of the House of Commons
Some prominent Parliamentary personalities pictured in the lobby of the House of Commons. In the left foreground are Messrs.A. Maclaren, J. R. Clynes and Philip Snowden

Robert Richardson-Gardner (1827 - 1898), British barrister, militia officer and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1890

William Robson, Baron Robson
William Snowdon Robson, Baron Robson (1852 1918), English lawyer, judge and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1885 and 1910. Caption The Solicitor General

Suffragette Cat Behind the Grille. Cat is barred from the Chamber of the house of Commons. Captioned, The Suffragette Question. Behind the Grille in the Cats Parliament House Date: 1912

W. S. P. U Handbill Deputation Right of Petition
W.S.P.U Handbill Deputation Right of Petition. W.S.P.U Votes for Women handbill announcing a Deputation to the House of Commons, June 29th 1909, referring to The Bill of Rights

Suffragette Charlotte Despard Exeter Hall. Charlotte Despard (1844-1939) addresses a meeting at the Exeter Hall, London after Dickinsons Bill was talked out in the House of commons. Date: 1907

Suffragette-Proof House of Commons. A suffragette-proof palisade or bunker guarded by a policeman is erected at the House of Commons

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