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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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re fm-nished ; it was not a distinctionbut a harmony in individuality that was apparent, Hardinge Stanley Giffard, Earl of Halsbury, andthree times Lord High Chancellor of P)ngland, waseighty years of age on that memorable occasion whenthe friendship of the two great neighboui-ing peopleswas sealed in Westminster Hall. Nevertheless, he wasin the fullest vigour, mental and physical. There isan axiom of the English Bar that a practitioner inthe criminal courts never reaches the Woolsack. Anexception to the rule is Lord Halsbury. While atthe Bar he practised chiefly at the assizes, and was aCrown Prosecutor. But such are the virility of character and thepowerful and versatile intellect of Lord Halsbury, thathe was certain to succeed in any walk of life, nomatter what difficulties might be in the way. Indeed,on that 12th of August, 1905, he looked as if he couldstep from the Bench of the Court of Chancery on tothe quarter-deck of the Admirals flagship, to takecommand of the Channel Fleet.
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THE DUKE OF ARGYLL. John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Duke of Argyll,bearer of the ancient Celtic title, Mac Cailean Mhor,—from Sii- Colin Campbell who was knighted in 1286—chief of a great Highland clan, is an author and poetas well as a politician. He is better known as theMarquess of Lome. As such he married in 1871Princess Louise, the sixth child and fourth daughter ofQueen Victoria, being at the time the Liberal Memberfor Argyllshire. For five years—between 1878 and1883—he filled the exalted post of Governor-Generalof Canada. He sat as a Liberal-Unionist in th^ House ofCommons from 1895 until he succeeded to the dukedomon the death of his father in 1900. But though he wasconstant in liis attendance during those five years henever spoke in the House. Yet he is an excellentspeaker, with much of the fancy and imagination ofthe Gael. He is also a thinking, earnest man, desirousof grappling with important questions, such as ImjjerialFederation, in which he is especially intere

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