3-028-642 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mr. Gladstone's Ministerial Dinner: arrival of guests, 1870. British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone entertains his political friends '...at No. 8, Carlton House-terrace [in London]...Many of the guests were in Court dress; and their arrival at Mr. Gladstone's door, after seven o'clock in the evening, attracted the gaze of a crowd of loungers. Among the gentlemen invited were the Right Hon. Evelyn Denison, Speaker of the House; the Marquis of Hartington, Viscount Castlerosse, Lord Otho Fitzgerald, Lord John Hay, the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Hugh Childers, the Right Hon. J. Bright, the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, the Right Hon. C. S. Fortescue, the Right Hon. J. Stansfeld, the Right Hon. W. E. Forster, the Right Hon. W. Monsell, the Right Hon. A. S. Ayrton, the Attorney-General, the Lord Advocate, the Judge Advocate-General, Captain the Hon. F. Egerton, Captain the Hon. A. W. Greville Nugent, the Hon. G. G. Glyn, the Hon. J. C. W. Vivian, Sir C. Dilke, Mr. E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen, Mr. W. A. Peel, Mr. Trevelyan, Mr. Shaw Lefevre, Mr. W. E. Baxter, Mr. W. P. Adam, Mr. Otway, Mr. Grant-Duff, Mr. West, and Mr. W. B. Gurdon'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.