3-052-638 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Election of Representative Peers for Scotland, at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, 1880. 'Hats of the Period - a Sketch in Queen Mary's Apartments; In the Picture Gallery; "Thus far and no further"; Exit of Peeresses; The Grooms and Porters at the Gate...the Peers affect no great show of state upon the important political occasion we have to notice. They were presided over by the Earl of Glasgow, holding the office of Lord Clerk Register; and the only costumes to be remarked were the robes of the Lord Provost and two or three Bailies of Edinburgh, the Town Clerk, the Convener, and the advocates or barristers acting as clerks...The peers elected were the Earls of Mar, Morton, Strathmore, Haddington, Airlie, Leven, Selkirk, and Dundonald, Viscount Strathallan, and Lords Forbes, Saltoun, Elphinstone, Borthwick, Blantyre, Colville, and Balfour. The Rev. Professor Flint pronounced a benediction. Our Sketches further include a few scenes on the staircase and in the corriders, with the Palace beadle, the special constables, and their Lordships' men-servants outside. The inscription on a wall is that which commemorates a builder employed long ago to restore part of the Palace'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.