3-085-869 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The National Memorial to Sir Gerald Portal and his brother, Captain Melville Raymond Portal, in Winchester Cathedral, 1898. 'From a Photograph by Mr. Walter T. Green, Winchester. In curious coincidence with the revival of interest in Uganda, by reason of the disturbed state of that district, the memorial raised by public subscription to the late Sir Gerald Portal and his brother Captain Melville Portal, who served under him in Uganda, has just been placed in Winchester Cathedral. Sir Gerald Portal will be remembered in the history of the extension of the British Empire during the Victorian Era by the valuable services which he rendered the Government as Special Commissioner in Uganda and Consul-General at Zanzibar, services which made him the victim of the insidious fever to which he succumbed at the early age of thirty-six. Captain Melville Portal, who is commemorated in the same monument, accompanied his brother, Sir Gerald, on his mission in Uganda, and there fell a victim to the climate and the difficulties of travel in the district. The handsome memorial, of which we give an Illustration, is the work of Mr. Waldo Storey, from whoso studio in Rome more than one notable piece of sculpture has previously been given to the world.' From "Illustrated London News", 1898.