1-273-664 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, MP, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1881. Dilke (1843-1911) was a radical Liberal politician who served as MP for Chelsea between 1866 and 1886. He was a cabinet minister from 1882-1885, helping to pass a range of progressive legislation including laws giving the municipal franchise to women, limiting working hours and legalising unions, but his ministerial career ended due to a scandalous divorce case. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (Conducted by G. C. Whitfield.) (London, 1876-1883).