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Title: Sir Benjamin Stone's pictures; records of national life and history reproduced from the collection of photographs made by Sir Benjamin Stone, M.P
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Stone, John Benjamin, Sir, 1838-1914 MacDonagh, Michael, 1862-1946
Subjects: Great Britain. Parliament Statesmen
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Speaker Peel, ratherthan use the coach, prefen-ed to walk on foot to West-minster Abbey for the Queen Victoria Jubilee service. On June 23rd, 1897, the day of the visit of theHouse of Commons to Buckingham Palace to present anaddress to Queen Victoria on her Diamond Jubilee, theold coach, after a quarter of a century of retirement,was again brought forth into ceremonial life. On thatoccasion there was a difficulty in horsing the carriage,weighing, as it does, over four tons. It was only over-come by the provision of two horses of enormousstrength from the stables of a well - known firm ofbrewers. The coach, containing Mr. Speaker Gully, the Ser-jeant-at-Arms, the Chaplain of the House of Commons,the Speakeis secretary, and his train-bearer, limiberedslowly, with much rocking, to Buckingham Palace. Itwas accompanied by the Speakers traditional escort, asolitary mounted Guardsman. Behind it followed theMembers of Parliament, on foot, or in horsed vehicles ofuU kinds, and motor-cars. t.t
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26 MR. MICHAEL DAVITT. The empty sleeve that hung by Mr. Davitts sidetold a tale of the hardshijjs and mishaps of his earlylife. When he was a boy his parents were evictedfrom their homestead in County Mayo, and, coming toEngland, settled in the little town of Haslingden, inLancashire. There in a cotton mill, when he was tenyears old, his right arm was torn off by the machinery. All his life Mr. Davitt was connected with theextreme wing of the Irish Nationalist movement. Atthe age of twenty-five he was convicted in London oftreason-felony—the particular offence being the import-ation of arms to Ireland—and sentenced to fifteen yearspenal servitude. Released in 1877, he was associatedtwo years later with Charles Stewart Parnell in foundingthe famous Irish Land League. Mr. Davitt was returned to Parliament at various timesb)^ different Irish constituencies. But his appearances inthe House were fitful, and he seemed to be a lonely andsomewhat pathetic figure. The political atmosphere

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