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Title: Sir Benjamin Stone's pictures; records of national life and history reproduced from the collection of photographs made by Sir Benjamin Stone, M.P
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Stone, John Benjamin, Sir, 1838-1914 MacDonagh, Michael, 1862-1946
Subjects: Great Britain. Parliament Statesmen
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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t 25^ hours. It was the longestsitting for close on a quarter of a century. Thebusines.* was the committee stage of the Finance Bill,founded upon the Budget of Mr. Austen Chamberlain,which was stoutly opposed by the Liberals. Throughout that long sitting, all through the drearynight, Mr. Charringtou stuck to his post. There weretwenty-one divisions, and in 19 of them the old manvoted. He was cheered by his Conservative colleaguesas he walked up the floor from the division lobbies,almost bent double with age; and each time turningup the gangway, climbed to the topmost bench imderthe gallery, where he reclined until another divisionwas challenged, and he had again to walk the weaiyround of the lobbies. A few days subsequently the octogenarian memberfor )\Iile End division of Tower Hamlets was presentedby the Prime Minister, Mr. Arthur Balfour, witli a silvercup, subscribed for by liis colleagues, as a memento ofhis signal display of loyalty to party. He died inthe following December. 41
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