3-086-365 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Funeral of Mr. Gladstone: the funeral cortege leaving Westminster Hall [at the Palace of Westminster in London], 1898. 'From Photograph by Russell and Sons. About half-past ten the Clerk of Parliaments gave the signal, whereupon the Lord Chancellor rose and proclaimed the order of procession. A few minutes later he left the House, preceded by the Serjeant-at-Arms and the Purse-bearer, and followed by peers. In the first rank walked the Duke of Devonshire and Lord Cross. The Lords' procession followed exactly the same route as that taken by the Commons some ten minutes earlier...The assembled company with one voice repeated the loud "Amen!" and the body having been borne to the door and placed on the plainest of funeral cars - a mere wheeled platform - drawn by two bay horses, the procession moved away, led by the Heralds Somerset and York, whose sole mark of office was a white wand... The procession moved away from Palace Yard along the route lined by thousands of sorrowing spectators...'. 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.