1-273-652 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

John Arthur John Arthur Roebuck, MP, 1881. John Arthur Roebuck (1801-1879) served as an MP for Bath and Sheffield. In 1855 he presided over a parliamentary committee of inquiry into the mismanagement of the Crimean War. Roebuck had a reputation in the House of Commons for asking hostile questions of governments of all parties. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (Conducted by G. C. Whitfield.) (London, 1876-1883).