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Sir Leslie Matthew Ward 'Spy' (1851-1922)
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Sir Leslie Matthew Ward 'Spy' (1851-1922)

Sir Lewis McIver, Bart., M.P., 'The Member for Scotland' Politician

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Sir Leslie Matthew Ward 'Spy' (1851-1922)
Sir Lewis McIver, Bart., M.P., 'The Member for Scotland'
Politician
signed 'Spy' (lower right)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour
12¾ x 8¼ in. (32.4 x 21 cm.)
Provenance
A.G. Witherby.
Stanley Jackson.
Exhibited
Hendon, Church Farm House Museum, Vanity Fair 1869-1914, 10 September - 18 December, 1893.
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Lot Essay

Sir Lewis McIver, 1st Baronet, M.P. (1846-1933), Politician, was born in Madras, the son of John McIver who was secretary of the Presidency Bank at the time. He was educated at Bonn University, Germany, and became a lawyer. In the late 1870s, he joined the Indian Civil Service and, afterwards, travelled extensively holding various political posts around the world. He married Charlotte Rosalind Montefiore in 1884 and had two children. In 1885, he sat for Torquay, Devon, but more memorably, from 1895 to 1909 he was Liberal-Unionist M.P. for Edinburgh West. Queen Victoria knighted him in 1895.

His seventeen years in India have shown him how great England is, and he has been all over Scotland piping for his party and for his country; wherefore he is known as the 'Member for Scotland'.

Vanity Fair, 'Statesmen', No. 674, 1896.

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