Portrait of William Blaxland Benham (1860-1950) Duke of Queensberry Great Britain's Kriss Akabusi

Great Britain's Kriss Akabusi

Original is oil on canvas 26x36

He is being consoled by the promise that the bill will only add a total of one per cent to the franchise

and by the continuous attacks on its proposals by Disraeli

but to let him settle the matter himself

Portrait of William Blaxland Benham (1860-1950) Duke of Queensberry Great Britain's Kriss AkabusiFormal photographic portrait of William Blaxland Benham, half length, full face. Inscription on card reads: 'MAULL & FOX 187 PICCADILLY LONDON, W.' Benham was appointed professor of biology at Bedford College for Women, London, in 1886. He became professor of biology at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1898 and later became the president of the New Zealand Institute (1916 1917). Benham's main area of study was on the microstructure