3-082-166 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Movers and Seconders of the Address in Parliament: Lord Battersea; Lord Welby; Mr. Charles E. Hobhouse; Mr. William H. Holland, 1895. 'At the reopening of Parliament on Feb. 5 the duties of moving and seconding the Address in reply to the Speech from the Throne will be discharged in the Upper House by Lord Welby and Lord Battersea, and in the House of Commons by Mr. C. E. H. Hobhouse and Mr. W. H. Holland. Although Lord Welby has only sat in the House of Lords for a few months, his public career is of very long duration. Reginald Earle Welby...entered the Treasury in 1856, where...he served as Permanent Secretary from 1885 until his creation as a peer in 1894. He was "the man behind the throne" of various Chancellors of the Exchequer, who have all paid high tributes to his talents. Lord Battersea is better known as the Mr. Cyril Flower who represented Brecknock from 1880 to 1885, and the Luton Division subsequent to being raised to the Peerage in 1892...Mr. Charles E. H. Hobhouse was formerly lieutenant in the 60th Rifles...he was elected M.P. for the Devizes division of Wiltshire, in 1892...Mr. W. H. Holland is a cotton-spinner...who has represented the Northern Division of Salford since 1892'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.