William Edward Forster MP Size:M: 75 x 60cm looking up the River Thames

looking up the River Thames showing Lambeth Palace on the left and Westminster Abbey on the right

27th August 1981

probably at the Apsley Pellatt & Company's Falcon Glassworks at Holland Street

Paul Dyson

William Edward Forster MP Size:M: 75 x 60cm looking up the River ThamesWilliam Edward Forster MP, 1878. Forster was a Quaker and Liberal member of parliament. He helped his father distribute relief to the famine stricken population in Ireland in 1846, and Ireland was always one of his main concerns. He was also Under Secretary of State for the Colonies and Rector of Aberdeen University. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art,