Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, Duke of Richmond and Gordon Size:XL: 90 x 60cm Many experiments were under way

Many experiments were under way to utilise electricity for public lighting in London

who drew the picture from which this engraving was produced

Queen Victoria at the Guildhall banquet

with bridesmaids in the foreground and wedding guests to the sides

His views on the need to allow women the vote were well-known and he was a passionate advocate of extending the franchise to include the 'gentler' sex

Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, Duke of Richmond and Gordon Size:XL: 90 x 60cm Many experiments were under wayCharles Henry Gordon Lennox, Duke of Richmond and Gordon, c1890. The Duke of Richmond (1818 1903) held various cabinet posts in the Conservative governments of Lord Derby, Disraeli and the Marquess of Salisbury. A lithograph from The Modern Portrait Gallery, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, Paris and New York, c1890.