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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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ws paintedwith the rose, thistle, and shamrock on panelled wallswith bronze bas-reliefs of historic events, and on paint-ings of Kings and Queens, all eloquent of the growthand development of the British Constitution. But the most conspicuous object is a fine groupof statuary under a carved archway in the centre ofthe room. Queen Victoria, robed and crowned, isseated on a throne, with Justice on her right, andClemency on her left, the two qualities by which truesovereignty is best girt round and guarded, or uponwhich it most securely rests. On the pedestal thereare bas-reliefs of Science, Commerce, and Industry. Thogroup is from the chisel of John Gibson, R.A.—theleading British sculptor of his time — who gave fiveyears to it, and considered it his masterpiece. It i.s, indeed, fitting that the finest statue in theselegislative buildings of men law-givers should be toa Queen who was not only a great ConstitutionalSovereign, but who wielded also the stainless sceptreof womanhood. 52
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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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