3-086-323 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Various portraits, 1898. Three '...physicians who attended Mr. Gladstone with such devotion during his last illness: Dr. William Murray Dobie, the deceased statesman's old and tried friend; Dr. Hubert E. J. Biss [is] the third physician who signed the last bulletin; Dr. Samuel Herbert Habershon was telegraphed for when the fatal relapse came. The late Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole, three times Home Secretary; the late Major Charles Henry Wynne Donovan, Army Service Corps, died from the effects of wounds received in action at Karene on the West Coast of Africa; the late Major-General Edward Alexander Wood, served in the Afghan War of 1878-79; the late Lieutenant Richard Rodney Ricketts, killed at Romaini, during the successful operation against the rebels of the Karene District in the hinterland of Sierra Leone; Mr. W. J. Napier, Chairman of the Auckland (New Zealand) Harbour Board and President of the Auckland Branch of the Navy League...one of the most prominent "Imperialists" in New Zealand'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.