Illustrations
Plate 1:
Arthur Ponsonby aged about eight
;
Arthur Ponsonby,
c
. 1900
;
Shulbrede Priory, from a drawing by Arthur Ponsonby.
Plate 2:
Arthur Ponsonby as prospective Liberal candidate at Taunton
;
Ponsonby with Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
Plate 3:
Labour MPs on the Terrace of the House of Commons, 1909.
Plate 4:
Charles and Molly Trevelyan (
National Trust
)
;
the Trevelyans and their children, 1910 (
Trustees of the Trevelyan Family
)
;
Arthur Ponsonby at the start of his parliamentary career.
Plate 5:
A
Punch
cartoon of the House of Commons as a zoo
;
Punch
’s view of Ramsay MacDonald’s oratory.
Plate 6:
Thomas Edmund Harvey (
National Portrait Gallery
)
;
Arnold Rowntree (
Getty Images
)
;
Richard Denman (
National Portrait Gallery
).
Plate 7:
Sir Hubert Parry.
Plate 8:
Keir Hardie speaking at a Labour peace rally (
Getty Images
)
;
Philip Morrell, 1910 (
National Portrait Gallery
)
;
Robert Leonard Outhwaite (
Staffordshire Evening Sentinel
).
Plate 9:
Sir Edward Grey in the House of Commons (
Getty Images
)
;
‘Bravo Belgium’,
Punch
cartoon.
Plate 10:
Crowds outside the Houses of Parliament (
Getty Images
)
;
crowds in Trafalgar Square (
Getty Images
).
Plate 11:
Leonard Outhwaite’s view of the war in his
Ghosts of the Slain
(illustrator Joseph Southall).
Plate 12:
Ramsay MacDonald at Shulbrede Priory
;
the Parry and Ponsonby families, July 1915.
Plate 13:
Dolly Ponsonby.
Plate 14:
Punch
depiction of Josiah Wedgwood speaking in the House of Commons
;
Punch
’s view of Richard Holt.
Plate 15:
Newspaper advertisement for Government candidates in the 1918 General Election
;
the Trevelyan family 1919 (
Newcastle University, Robinson Library
).
Plate 16:
Arthur Ponsonby at his Foreign Office desk, 1924
;
Arthur Ponsonby sketch giving advice to his youthful self.
