3-086-366 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Funeral of Mr. Gladstone: the House of Lords' procession crossing Broad Sanctuary [Westminster, London], 1898. 'From Photograph by Bolas...the House of Lords had assembled. At ten o'clock the Lord Chancellor took his place on the woolsack, and the House was constituted in the usual manner with prayer. 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 procession moved away from Palace Yard along the route lined by thousands of sorrowing spectators...'. View of crowds outside the Royal Aquarium, where a sign advertises 'Seats for the Funeral'. 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.