Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1895 — ENGLAND’S NEW SPEAKER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ENGLAND’S NEW SPEAKER.

William Court Gully, the new speaker of the House of Commons, is a son of James Manby Gully, M. D., and was born in London in 1835. He was educated by private tutors and at Trinity College, Cambridge, being admitted to the degree of<M. A. in 1859. In 1865 he married Elizabeth Anne Walford Selby. He was called to the bar at the Inner temple in

1860, became a queen's counsel in 1877, and was made a Bencher of His Inn in 1879. He was appointed recorder of W igan in 1886. He unconsciously contested the Whitehaven division for Parliament in 1880 and 1885. Since 1886 he has sat for Carlisle. In politics he is a liberal and a supporter of Mr. Gladstone’s Irish policyj /