William Edward Forster MP Size:S: 50 x 40cm West end of the Church

West end of the Church of St Edmund the King

women and children armed with pea shooters

he had given a speech in Rochdale when he had said that the endeavour was to make Parliament 'the honest and faithful guardian of the interests of all classes in the country'

William Fraser was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1791

and upper right '14' in pencil

William Edward Forster MP Size:S: 50 x 40cm West end of the ChurchWilliam Edward Forster MP, 1878. Forster was a Quaker and Liberal member of parliament. He helped his father distribute relief to the famine stricken population in Ireland in 1846, and Ireland was always one of his main concerns. He was also Under Secretary of State for the Colonies and Rector of Aberdeen University. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art,