3-082-646 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Marriage of Miss Peel with Mr. Rochfort Maguire, M.P., St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, 1895. 'Our Artist...has wisely chosen to depict only those most intimately concerned. Mr. Peel - as politicians and the public will always think of the ex-Speaker - would have been in any case a notable figure in the church, but additional interest caused by recent events was centred upon him as he gave his eldest daughter to a member of that House over which he has presided with such fine dignity...all sections of political life, and representatives of all departments of the Palace of Westminster, were there to wish Mr. and Mrs. Maguire happiness, and to pay a compliment to the bride's father by their presence. The bride was attended by seven bridesmaids - the Misses Agnes and Ella Peel (sisters of the bride), Miss Peel, Miss Mabel Wombwell, and Miss J. Dugdale (cousins), the Hon. Gweneth Ponsonby, daughter of Viscount Duncannon, and Miss Evelyn Cavendish- Bentinck. The officiating clergy were the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, the Dean of Canterbury, the Rev. J. H. J. Ellison, Vicar of Windsor, and the Rev. J. Richardson, Vicar of Sandy. The bridegroom was accompanied by the Hon. Schomberg McDonnell as best man'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.