3-086-375 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Funeral of Mr. Gladstone: the chief mourners, headed by the Rev. Stephen Gladstone, entering the Abbey, 1898. 'From Photograph by Bolas. The chief mourners, headed by the Rev. Stephen Gladstone, followed. They included Mr. Henry Gladstone, Mr. Herbert Gladstone, and Master William G. Gladstone, the heir of Hawarden. Other relatives and friends succeeded, then came the deceased statesman's private secretaries and physicians. The rear was closed by Mr. Gladstone's servants and the deputation from Hawarden'. British Prime Minister William Eward Gladstone (born 1809) died on 19 May 1898, and was buried in Westminster Abbey in London on 26 May. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.