Thos Whittaker, Preston [facsimile signature and mss.] Tell me not what strong drink has been...It is Britains curse. It is the God of ths Nation.
T.W. Wilson del. Alvey, lith. London Road. [n.d., c.1830.] Lithograph, sheet 315 x 220mm. 12½ x 8¾". Diagonal crease. A temperance campaigner speaking and gesticulating, clutching a scroll of paper in his left hand. Presumably he is an antecedent of Sir Thomas Palmer Whittaker (1850 - 1919), the politician and temperance reformer, newspaper editor and writer.
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