3-052-513 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Election Sketches: family influence, 1880. '...that fashionable youth, perhaps a Guardsman and heir to a peerage or baronetcy, who relies securely upon "family influence" and a large territorial property, as he rises with easy confidence to make his appropriate speech, having his sisters and cousins and the hereditary allies of his race, seated in graceful complacency behind him! The gift of silver speech is more readily bestowed on him who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.