A Step in Reform. Suggested to Mr. John Bright, while he is About It Size:S: 40 x 30cm as England embarked on a

as England embarked on a well-deserved lap of honour

Heygate was Alderman for Coleman St Ward from 1812-1843 and Lord Mayor in 1822-1823

warm-hearted wife and mother whose virtue is called into question only by her husband

he became so impassioned that many of those leaning towards reform became alarmed and tried to distance themselves from Bright's radical views

A Step in Reform. Suggested to Mr. John Bright, while he is About It Size:S: 40 x 30cm as England embarked on a'A Step in Reform. Suggested to Mr. John Bright, while he is About It', 1858. This cartoon shows Mr John Bright, the Quaker. Bright was an outspoken advocate of parliamentary reform and peppered his numerous speeches with attacks on British aristocracy. In a poem entitled Mr Bright's Next, Punch also described his attacks on slavery, Catholicism, Russian serfdom, the House of Lords, Ireland and America. In this cartoon, though, Punch is suggesting