2: JOHN TENNIEL
The Grand Young Man!! From the late 1870s, Lord Randolph Churchill (1849-1895) rose to prominence as the advocate of a new form of Conservatism that would become known as ‘Tory Democracy’. Churchill declared that Conservatives ought to adopt, rather than oppose, popular reforms; that the claims of the Liberals as being champions of the masses should be challenged, following on from the social reforms passed by Disraeli between 1874 and 1880. An ardent critic of the Conservative front bench, Churchill was appointed Secretary of State for India in 1885 and, following an active role in the failure of Gladstone’s Home Rule Bill in 1886, was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons under Lord Salisbury in August 1886.
29 THE GRAND YOUNG MAN!! SHADE OF ‘ DIZZY ’. ‘ DEAR ME ! QUITE REMINDS ONE OF OLD TIMES !!’ signed with monogram and dated 1886 inscribed with title and publication details on original mount pencil 8 1⁄4 x 6 1⁄4 inches Illustrated: Punch, 7 August 1886, page 67
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