The Great Champion Shaver

The Great Champion Shaver. Fun (26 October 1887): 175. John Gordon Thomson. “William lathers into and polishes off the superfluous ’airs of the Tory Party. — Teddy Wick not in it.” Courtesy of the Suzy Covey Comic Book Collection in the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida. Click on image to enlarge it.

Gladstone has taken hold of the nose of Salisbury while Randolph Churchill sits next to him with a very unhappy look on his face. At Gladstone’s right appears a figure wearing a Quaker hat, which suggests he represents John Bright,hardly a Tory.

Related material


Last modified 18 June 2019