Politician Collection (#97)

George Canning (1770-1827) British statesman. On the resignation of Lord Liverpool in 1827 Canning became Prime Minister but died the same year. Hand-coloured engraving

Arthur Wellesley, lst Duke of Wellington (1760-1852) Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman. British Prime Minister 1827. Portrait after Thomas Lawrence, 1828

Daniel O Connell (1755-1847) The Liberator, Irish politician and patriot, shown with the Irish Frankenstein, the monster of his creation (as England saw it)

Robert Peel (1788-1850), Prime Minister, taking his final curtain call. His Repeal of Corn Laws passed on 25 June but same night was defeated on his Irish bill. Resigned 29 June

Punchs monument to Robert Peel (1788-1850) for the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846. From 1815 to 1846 Corn Laws kept corn prices high to protect farmers from foreign competition

Robert Peel, Prime Minister, as a Baker, Duke of Wellington carrying advertising placard. From 1815 to 1846 Corn Laws kept corn prices high to protect farmers from foreign competition

Lord John Russell shown campaigning for abolition of the Corn Laws. Between 1815 and 1846 Corn Laws kept corn prices high to protect farmers from foreign competition

Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquis of Hartington and 8th Duke of Devonshire (1833-1908) British Liberal statesman and landowner

John Edward Redmond (1856-1918) Irish politician known as The Irish Petrel. A champion of Home Rule, he became chairman of the Nationalist party in 1900. Engraving c1900

Robert Lowe, lst Viscount Sherbrooke (1811-1892) British statesman. In 1868 appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer by Gladstone. Raised to peerage as Viscount Sherbrooke in 1880

John Russell, lst Earl Russell (1792-1878) English Whig / Liberal politician. Prime
John Russell, lst Earl Russell (1792-1878) English Whig/Liberal politician. Prime Minister 1842-1852. Grandfather of Bertrand Russell

William Ewart Gladstone (Liberal) campaigning in Edinburgh during the 1892 election caused by the fall of Lord Salisburys Conservative government

Election campaign, November / December 1885. Lord Salisbury, Conservative Prime Minister
Election campaign, November/December 1885. Lord Salisbury, Conservative Prime Minister addressing the Conservative association at Newport, Monmouthshire

William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) giving an election address on Blackheath in his Greenwich constituency. General election February 1874. Gladstone lost to the Conservatives under Disraeli

Thomas Bromley (1530-1587) English lawyer and statesman. Expert on property law: served on Edward VIs regency council: Lord Chancellor from 1579

William Cecil, lst Baron Burghley (1520-1598) appointed Secretary of State by Elizabeth I in 1558 and was the prominent English statesman of his age. Cecil in the robes of the Order of the Garter

William Paget, 1st Baron Paget of Beaudesert (1506-1563) English statesman and diplomat, adviser to Henry VIII. Comptroller of the Household to Edward VI

Erich Mielke (1907-2000), German Communist politician. Minister of State Security in the German Democratic Republic (DDR) 1957-1989

President John F Kennedy and Willy Brandt, Mayor of Berlin, at the White House, 13 March 1961. Photographer Marion S.Trikosko

Set Down Two, and Carry One. ja: Gladstone, the British Prime Minister, in a quandary
Set Down Two, and Carry One.ja: Gladstone, the British Prime Minister, in a quandary over which of the controversial Irish bills to jettison. John Tenniel cartoon from Punch, London, 3 April 1886

The Live Shell: Salisburys (right) administration resigned in January to be followed in February by the third Gladstone (left) administration

Fagins Political School: Reform of Parliament - extension of the franchise. Disraeli carried the Reform Bill through the Commons in 1867, claiming credit for acceptance of the legislation

Great Autumn Manoeuvre: Gladstone thought that eventually the vote must be given to agricultural labourers (Hodge). At this time his premiership was shaky and Disraeli is waiting to take his place

Wheres the (Irish) Policeja: William Gladstone, British Prime Minister, watching the unrest in Ireland and waiting to intervene. In April a new Irish Peace Preservation Act was passed by Parliament

Taking the (Irish) Bull by the Horns: Bill passed by Parliament on 15 February 1870 and received royal assent on 8 July. William Gladstone, Prime Minister, dealing with the issue

The Derby, 1867. Dizzy Wins with Reform Bill : Disraeli introduced a new Reform Bill in 1867. John Tenniel cartoon from Punch, London

The Honest Pot Boy: Reform of Parliament - extension of the franchise. Disraeli serving up Reform to John Bull watched by his parliamentary opposition. He introduced and carried his Reform Bill

Political Economy: Reform of Parliament - extension of the franchise. Disraeli (Chancellor) and Derby (Prime Minister) dusting off the Reform Bill. In 1867 Disraeli introduced a new bill

The Officious Passenger: Reform of Parliament - extension of the franchise. The Prime Minister, Lord John Russell, asking John Bright to stop trumpeting the Reform Bill

Stafford Henry Northcote, first Earl of Iddesleigh (1818-1887) English statesman. Chancellor of the Exchequer 1874. In 1876 he became leader of the Conservative party in the House of Commons

Who Will Rouse Himja: Reform of Parliament - extension of the franchise. John Bright, Benjamin Disraeli and Lord John Russell (left to right)

The Irish Petrel: John Edward Redmond (1856-1918) Irish politician. A champion of Home Rule, he became chairman of the Nationalist party in 1900. After cartoon by Spy from Vanity Fair, London, 1904

Anti-Rent: Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891) Irish politician. Supporter of Home Rule and President of the Irish Land League. After cartoon in Vanity Fair, London, 1880

Babble, Birth, and Brummagem (Talk, Aristocracy, and Birmingham): Gladstone, the Duke of Devonshire and Joseph Chamberlain on the Liberal front bench. After cartoon from Vanity Fair, London, July 1880

The Colonies: Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) British Liberal statesman at the time he was Secretary of State for the Colonies (1895-1903). After cartoon by Spy from Vanity Fair, London, 1901

Stafford Henry Northcote, first Earl of Iddesleigh (1818-1887) English statesman. Chancellor of the Exchequer 1874. In 1876 he became leader of the Conservative party in the House of Commons

Heinrich Bruning (1885-1970) German politician. During the Weimar Republic he served as Chancellor from 1930 to 1932. Election poster for March 1933 campaigning for the return of Bruning

Friedrich Ebert (1871-1925) German politician (SPD). Served as Chancellor of Germany and its first President during the Weimar period. Photograph February 1921

Frederick Arthur Stanley (1841-1908) sixteenth Earl of Derby. English Conservative statesman, racehorse owner. Governor-General of Canada 1888-1893. From Men of Mark, London 1877. Woodburytype

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl (1801-1885) Shaftesbury, English factory reformer and philanthropist. From Men of Mark, London c1877. Woodburytype

Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne Cecil, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury (1830-1903) British Conservative statesman. Prime Minister 1885, 1886, 1895-1902, at the time he was Secretary of State for India

Indian Prime Minister Nehru meeting with West German Chancellor c1961

Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967), West German Chancellor, leaving the Alied Military Headquarters in Berlin

Ludwig Erhard (1897-1977), economist and politician, left, with Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967), statesman, at Bad Godesberg, 25 October 1960

Annemarie Renger (7 October 1919 - 3 March 2008), born Annemarie Wildung, German politician and the first woman to become President of the Bundestag, which she achieved in 1972

Philipp Scheidemann (26 July 1865 - 29 November 1939) German Social Democratic politician, who proclaimed the Republic on 9 November 1918, and who became the first Chancellor of the Weimar Republic

Wilhelm I (1859-1888) King of Prussia from 1861, being proclaimed first Emperor of Germany, 1871. After the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871

Thomas Brassey, lst Earl Brassey (1836-1918) English Liberal politician and eldest son of Thomas Brassey the eminent railway contractor. Created Earl Brassey in 1911

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