3-085-967 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Various portraits, 1898. 'Mr. T. McKinnon Wood, Chairman, London County Council - head of the firm of Hugh Wood and Sons, wholesale provision merchants; Lord Welby, Vice-Chairman, London County Council - former Permanent Secretary of the Treasury; Mr. Henry Percy Harris, Deputy-Chairman, London County Council - Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee; the late Signor Cavallotti - the duel between Deputy Cavallotti and Deputy Macoia had a tragic ending; for the sword of Signor Macoia...entered Signor Cavallotti's mouth and cut the artery, so that in two speechless minutes he was dead; the late Mr. George Müller - [undertook] evangelistic work under the auspices of the Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews; the late Earl of Bradford - Master of the Horse, Lord Chamberlain; M. Witti, Russian Minister of Finance - negotiations of a confidential character are understood to be now afoot at St. Petersburg between M. Witti and certain Chinese officials; the late Mr. Woolf Joel, head manager of the enormous business interests of the firm of Barnato Brothers, was shot dead in Johannesburg; the late Sir Richard Quain, Bart., F.R.S. - physician...summoned to the death-bed of Lord Beaconsfield.' From "Illustrated London News", 1898.