Sir Wilfrid Lawson, British politician and temperance campaigner mb-code SF36351 one carrying a long staff

one carrying a long staff

St Paul's church with a semi-circular columned entrance

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

1900 (1902)

Sir Wilfrid Lawson, British politician and temperance campaigner mb-code SF36351 one carrying a long staffSir 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.