Sir Wilfrid Lawson, British politician and temperance campaigner mb-code SF36351 This refers to JF Professor

This refers to JF Professor Jenkins crossing of the Niagara Gorge on 5th August 1869 on a tightrope located at the Whirlpool Rapids just north of the Railway Suspension Bridge

What must it have been when it was New

' The first of six figures from the paper 'The arithmetic of the superdigit'

one carrying a long staff

under a tight black cap

Sir Wilfrid Lawson, British politician and temperance campaigner mb-code SF36351 This refers to JF ProfessorSir Wilfrid Lawson, British politician and temperance campaigner, c1890. First elected to Parliament in 1859, Lawson (1829 1906) was one of the leading figures in the temperance movement. A lithograph from The Modern Portrait Gallery, Cassell, Petter and Calpin, London, Paris and New York, c1890.