Framed chromolithograph picturing Mr Henry Broadhurst MP. A leading early British trade-unionist, Mr Broadhurst worked his way up from a stonemason's apprentice to become leader of the Labour Representation League, a forerunner of the Labour Party. From working as a mason on the clock tower of the rebuilt Palace of Westminster he eventually secured a seat in the House of Commons as MP, firstly  for Stoke-on-Trent, as well as chairmanship of the forerunner of the TUC.

Appointed Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department in the Liberal government he became the first person from a working-class or labour movement background to hold a ministerial post.