2-798-636 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Viscount Canterbury, 1845. Portrait of British politician Charles Manners Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury, who fell ill and died during a train journey. 'It was then found for the first time that he was ill, and he was lifted out of the carriage...Mr. Howlett, surgeon...was instantly sent for, and, having afforded all the assistance in his power, suggested that his pockets should be searched, and his card-case and card bearing his title was found, and his luggage with a corresponding name left no doubt who he was...There is something distressing in the circumstances attending his death; they exhibit a disadvantage connected with railway travelling, which at times may be something more than an inconvenience'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII.