Sir Wilfrid Lawson, British politician and temperance campaigner mb-code SF36351 1900 (1902)

1900 (1902)

Cornelius van Dun was a Yeoman of the Guard to Henry VIII

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

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

Sir Wilfrid Lawson, British politician and temperance campaigner mb-code SF36351 1900 (1902)Sir 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.