Movers and Seconders of the Address: Sir Charles Dilke, 1870. Engraving from a photograph by John Watkins. 'Sir Charles Dilke is the proprietor of a very successful finished his education at Trinity Hall, [He] was called to the Bar in 1866, but does not, so far as is known, practise in that profession. He may be said, as a traveller, to have "put a girdle round the earth," and he has communicated his ideas and recollections of the numerous countries he has visited in a work entitled "Greater ; At the last general election he was returned


Movers and Seconders of the Address: Sir Charles Dilke, 1870. Engraving from a photograph by John Watkins. 'Sir Charles Dilke is the proprietor of a very successful finished his education at Trinity Hall, [He] was called to the Bar in 1866, but does not, so far as is known, practise in that profession. He may be said, as a traveller, to have "put a girdle round the earth," and he has communicated his ideas and recollections of the numerous countries he has visited in a work entitled "Greater ; At the last general election he was returned at the head of the poll for the new metropolitan borough of Chelsea, and early in his Parliamentary career essayed to make a mark in the House, in which he has to a certain extent succeeded. For, pursuing the judicious course of speaking mainly, if not entirely, on questions on which he has knowledge and experience, he naturally got the ear of the House, and to all appearance he bids fair to be a prominent contributor to the was pronounced on those topics with which he is specially familiar, and glanced at all the others with sufficient point; and, above all, he took care not to fall into the error of being lengthy in his deliverances'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.


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