Many of his portraits of them have been engraved, the best-known being those of Thackeray reading a letter, Carlyle writing at his desk, Harriet lady Ashburton (in Lord Houghton's 'Monographs'), Frederick Denison Maurice, Mrs. Gaskell, Archbishop Trench, and William Edward Forster.
William Edward Forster (1818–1886), British statesman, Liberal MP, and Chief Secretary for Ireland.
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In 1865 he was elected a director of the Midland Railway, and in 1867 was returned as a liberal-conservative borough member for Bradford, with William Edward Forster as his colleague.