'Union Steamship' Sir Francis Henry Evans, British businessman and politician coastal showing a rowing boat with

showing a rowing boat with three occupants observing the works

Illustration from A Voyage Around Great Britain Undertaken between the Years 1814 and 1825 by William Daniell (1769-1837)

with the Lord Mayor's procession passing under the unfinished arches

London with a figure standing at a water pump

The unexpected denouement came about when Lord Salisbury was elected over the more fancied Duke of Richmond

'Union Steamship' Sir Francis Henry Evans, British businessman and politician coastal showing a rowing boat with'Union Steamship' Sir Francis Henry Evans, British businessman and politician, 1896. Evans (1840 1907) was Conservative MP for Southampton (1888 1895, 1896 1900) and for Maidstone (1901 1906). He was also Chairman of the Union Steamship Company. A print from Vanity Fair, May 7th 1896.