Wednesday, 12 March 2014
447 Willie Graham
Constituency : Glasgow 1865-74
Willie replaced Walter Buchanan as one of Glasgow's representatives.
William was the son of a prominent wine merchant and shipper in the city. He was known as an art collector and patron particularly promoting his friend Edward Burne-Jones. He was a Scotch Dissenter who opposed church rates.
William was an avowed moderate. He seconded the Queen's Speech in 1866. He supported the cause of parliamentary reform at a rally in 1866. He made a long speech against Grosvenor's amendment to the Reform Bill. He was against making Glasgow a three member constituency warning that an extreme trade unionist was more likely to win the third seat than a Tory.
The cartoon above refers to a supposed sanctimonious manner.
He died in 1885 aged 68.
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