2-791-586 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mr. Alderman Brown, the newly elected chamberlain, 1844. Portrait after Samuel Lane of Anthony Brown, Chamberlain of the City of London: '...for upwards of 40 years has been a member of the Corporation, 23 years a magistrate, and served the office of Sheriff in 1825, and Lord Mayor in 1827. The worthy Alderman is a fluent and well-informed speaker, and has lately distinguished himself in the Court of Common Council by his vindication of the rights of the Livery. He is the principal of the highly respectable firm of Brown, Marten, and Thomas, solicitors, of Mincing-lane'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I.