3-086-319 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Flickering Light of a Noble Life: newspaper correspondents waiting outside Mr. Gladstone's window at dawn on the 19th of May, 1898. 'Drawn by our Special Artist, Mr. S. Begg...at Hawarden, the final farewells were taken. Since the dawn of May 19, when the waiting Pressmen, who had watched all night the lighted windows, where a great life was flickering out, learned that Mr. Gladstone was no more, there had been subdued activity at the Castle'. British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone's 'country seat' was Hawarden Castle, near the village of Hawarden in Flintshire, Wales. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.