3-052-420 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Liverpool Election sketches, 1880. 'Mr. Whitley; Lord Ramsay; At the Welsh meeting last Saturday; A Welsh Speech; An M.P., Conservative Meeting at Edge Hill...[Scenes from the] contest for the Parliamentary representation of Liverpool, between Lord Ramsay, son of the Earl of Dalhousie, the Liberal candidate, and Mr. Edward Whitley, a local Conservative candidate...portraits of both the rival Candidates, Mr. Whitley and Lord Ramsay, nearly at full length, the latter standing in front of a platform, with some friends seated at the back, amongst whom is Lady Ramsay. The next scene is that of Lord Ramsay and his wife in an open carriage...driving through the street to a place of meeting, and stopping on the way to receive the loud salutations of the populace. The meeting of Welshmen at the Amphiteatre...is another subject of illustration; it was addressed by Mr. John Roberts, M.P. for Flint, Mr. Davies, M.P. for Anglesey, and Mr. Osborne Morgan, M.P., as well as by Lord Ramsay. On the other hand, Mr. Whitley and the Conservative party held an open-air meeting at Edge-hill,...at the corner of Wavertree-road, where a large number of the workpeople of the London and North-Western Railway congregated to hear their speeches'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.