'The Council of the "National Union" on the Terrace of the House of Commons'
3 of 5 portraits of Sir Francis William ('Frank') Lowe, 1st Bt
'The Council of the "National Union" on the Terrace of the House of Commons'
by Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 31 July 1903
6 1/8 in. x 8 1/8 in. (154 mm x 205 mm) image size
Given by House of Commons Library, 1974
Photographs Collection
NPG x135318
Artistback to top
- Sir (John) Benjamin Stone (1838-1914), Politician and photographer. Artist or producer associated with 1436 portraits, Sitter in 28 portraits. Identify
Sittersback to top
- Victor Christian William Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire (1868-1938), Politician, Governor-General of Canada. Sitter in 17 portraits. Identify
- Sir Frederick Dixon Dixon-Hartland, 1st Bt (1832-1909), Politician; MP for Evesham and Uxbridge. Sitter in 16 portraits. Identify
- Sir Francis William ('Frank') Lowe, 1st Bt (1852-1929), Politician; MP for Birmingham Edgbaston. Sitter in 5 portraits. Identify
- Sir Walter Richard Plummer (1858-1917), Politician and businessman. Sitter in 14 portraits. Identify
- Sir (John) Benjamin Stone (1838-1914), Politician and photographer. Sitter in 28 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 1436 portraits. Identify
- Arthur Annesley, 11th Viscount Valentia (1843-1927), Soldier, politician and landowner. Sitter in 26 portraits. Identify
- William Hood Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran (1849-1925), Cricketer and Conservative politician; MP for Tiverton and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury. Sitter in 15 portraits. Identify
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- Place made and portrayed: United Kingdom: England, London (Terrace, Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London)
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Events of 1903back to top
Current affairs
Emmeline Pankhurst forms the militant organisation, the Women's Social and Political Union, campaigning for greater rights for women and to secure them the vote. Its members were known as 'suffragettes', and adopted the slogan of 'Deeds, not words'.Joseph Chamberlain resigns as Colonial Secretary to campaign for tariff reform and an end to free trade, a key economic issue which splits the Conservative party.
Art and science
Henry James publishes The Ambassadors. Autobiographical in tone, it movingly and humorously traces the conversion of the American Lewis Lambert Strether, sent to Paris to find his widowed fiancee Mrs Newsome's wayward son Chad, to European culture.Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the leading Scottish arts and crafts designer and architect, designs the Willow tea rooms in Glasgow for his patron, Miss Catherine Cranston.
International
The Bolsheviks (meaning 'the majority'), a faction of the exiled Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, are formed after splitting from the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in London.After gaining independence following the end of the Spanish-American war, Cuba is forced to accept a permanent US military presence at Guantánamo Bay.
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