Our (Very) Friendly Societies! mb-height 6658 The former Conservative Prime Minister

The former Conservative Prime Minister died on 19th April 1881

Dedicated to Warren Stormes Hale Esq

Christopher Atkinson in the pillory outside the Corn Exchange

Motor Cycle Racing at oulton Park

Our (Very) Friendly Societies! mb-height 6658 The former Conservative Prime Minister'Our (Very) Friendly Societies!', 1886. The representative of Britain's honest and sober working class is diligently posting his small savings into the door of the Cormorant Friendly Society. On the other side of the door can be seen the 'cormorants', the directors of the society who are eating hugely, drinking deeply and enjoying the best cigars. This cartoon accompanies a poem of the same name which accuses such societies of keeping poor accounts,