King Hudson's Levée. This cartoon from Punch shows the rich and powerful grovelling before George Hudson, the railway swindler whom Thomas Carlyle mocked in Hudson's Statue. From Graves, p. 66.
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Bibliography
Graves, Charles L. Mr. Punch's History of Modern England. Vol. 1 [1841-57]. London: Cassell, 1921.
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