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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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The Right Hon.ST. JOHN BRODRICK. The son and heir of Viscount Midleton, educated atEton, and an M.A. of Oxford University, Mr. Brodrickis a type of the young men of birth and leisure in thiscountry who, in an age of lassitude, are possessed by adesire for strenuous and exacting work, and, attractedto politics, display in the ser^dce of the State a practicaltalent for the very difficult business of aduiinistration. He has filled with credit some of the highest politicaloffices under Unionist Governments. There could beno more conscientious Minister. To tlie lazy dandiesof his own rank in life, lounging gi-acefully on the backbenches of both sides of the House, his earnestness ofconviction and capacity for arduous work in his yearsof office must have contributed to the end for whichthey seem, mainly, to have entered Parliament—that is,to obtain new sensations. 53
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J JcyC^ JoKHLi. ^Ui^-xaXmI::^—^ J^xU^ yC /Ocv. f^O. SIR EDWARD REED, K.C.B.,and MR. E. T. REED. Father and son — the one a distinguished marineengineer and naval arcliitect, the other a renownedpolitical caricaturist. Sir Edward Reed, for long a familiar figure in theHouse of Commons, was Chief Constructor of theNavy for seven years, in a critical period of transition.He presided over the transformation of the Fleet fromwooden sailing-vessels into ironclads propelled bysteam. He also designed and supervised the con-struction in England of warships for foreign Powers.It is an interesting fact that Japans first battleship,the Foo Soo, was designed by Sir Edward Reed. Fromthat vessel one of the most powerful fleets in the worldin ships and in men has developed in a fjuarter of acentury. Sir Edward died in 1906. In what a different walk in life has Mr. E. T. Roedwon success! His deliciously absurd PrehistoricPeeps in the pages of Fundi made the whole EngHsh-speaking world laugh. As a

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