William Edward Forster MP Khufu Silvertongue shoots him dead in

Silvertongue shoots him dead in a duel and escapes through the window as a constable and the watch enter

he was imprisoned in the Tower of London the following year and murdered

Study of a marble sculpture bust of W M Leake

Jim Standen

William Edward Forster MP Khufu Silvertongue shoots him dead inWilliam Edward Forster MP, 1878. Forster was a Quaker and Liberal member of parliament. He helped his father distribute relief to the famine stricken population in Ireland in 1846, and Ireland was always one of his main concerns. He was also Under Secretary of State for the Colonies and Rector of Aberdeen University. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art,