Sir Benjamin Stones Pictures Records Of National Life And History Reproduced From The Collection Of Photographs Made By Sir Benjamin Stone Mp

Author : Stephen Roberts
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781499265521
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Sir Benjamin Stone 1838-1914 written by Stephen Roberts and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Benjamin Stone lived a full life, and was certainly a more contented man than his restless Birmingham contemporary Joseph Chamberlain. Elected to Parliament in 1895, Stone would have been an undistinguished backbencher had it not been for his camera. On the terrace of the House of Commons he lined up his fellow-MPs and various interesting visitors to have their pictures taken. Dubbed 'Sir Snapshot' by the press, he became in these years the most well-known amateur photographer in the country. Stone was an intrepid traveller too, embarking – equipped, of course, with his camera – on a voyage around the world in 1891 and a journey of almost one thousand miles up the Amazon in 1893. He was also an insatiable collector, particularly of botanical and geological specimens and a shrewd businessman, with investments in glass and paper manufacture and house-building and quarrying. Stone was also a Tory politician. He doggedly promoted the Tory cause in Liberal-dominated Birmingham in the 1870s and early 1880s, and, after the Liberal rupture over Irish Home Rule in 1886, became an equally-determined supporter of the new Unionist alliance.Drawing on newspapers and his own extensive personal papers, this is the first biography of Sir Benjamin Stone to be written. It is published to mark the centenary of his death.The volume includes twenty rarely-seen or previously unpublished photographs by Sir Benjamin Stone