The Funeral of Mr. Gladstone: placing the body in the train at Broughton Hall Station, 1898. Crowds at the railway station to witness '...the last journey from Hawarden [in Flintshire, Wales] to London. Sketch by our Special Artist, Mr. Melton Prior.' British Prime Minister William Eward Gladstone (born 1809) died on 19 May 1898, and was buried in Westminster Abbey on 26 May. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.
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