Sir Wilfrid Lawson, British politician and temperance campaigner mb-code SF36351 which proposed giving the Irish

which proposed giving the Irish authority power to detain persons suspected of treasonable practices

one carrying a long staff

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

under a tight black cap

including the Cetacea by Thomas Bell FRS (London

Sir Wilfrid Lawson, British politician and temperance campaigner mb-code SF36351 which proposed giving the IrishSir 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.