Group photo at Kensington High Street Station including Lady Edith Campbell, Arthur Philip Stanhope and Count Arrivabene

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Group photo at Kensington High Street Station including Lady Edith Campbell, Arthur Philip Stanhope and Count Arrivabene

by Unknown photographer
albumen print, July 1868
9 3/4in. x 15 1/2in. (248 mm x 394 mm)
Purchased, 1968
Photographs Collection
NPG x27688

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In October 1868 the Metropolitan Railway opened a line extension from Paddington to Gloucester Road via Kensington High Street. This photograph shows the Gladstones and other eminent figures on a trial ride the previous July. Other members of the party include the MP Arthur Philip Stanhope, sculptor and poet Thomas Woolner and esteemed railway engineer Sir John Fowler. William Ewart and Catherine Gladstone are seated at the front and back of the last wagon respectively. Journalists were invited to record such events in the hope that the coverage would allay public concerns about the safety of the network.

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Current affairs

Following the Earl of Derby's resignation, Benjamin Disraeli becomes Prime Minister. However, following a near immediate Liberal election victory, he is replaced as Prime Minister by Gladstone. Gladstone sets out his mission to 'pacify Ireland'.
Separately, the first meeting of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) is held in Manchester.
Public executions are abolished, and are moved from outside Newgate gaol to inside the prison.

Art and science

Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone published. Credited with writing the first sensation novel The Woman in White, Collins's claims another first here, as the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the Herncastle diamond, is recognised as one of the first detective novels.

International

An uprising against Spanish rule in Cuba sparks off the Ten Years' War, in which 200,000 lives are lost. Cubans in the eastern provinces unite under wealthy planter Carlos Manuel de Cespedes. Another armed uprising takes place against Spanish rule in the town of Lares in Puerto Rico, known as the 'Grito de Lares'.

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