Author: Kitson, James; 1st Baron Airedale (1835-1911). British Liberal politician, member of Parliament.
Title: Autograph of the British Liberal Politician James Kitson, 1st Baron of Airedale.
Description: Circa [1880's]. [1880's]. - James Kitson's signature penned on a 1-1/2 inch high by 2-7/8 inch wide slip of paper mounted onto a 1-3/4 inch high by 3-1/4 inch wide piece of paper cut from an autograph album. Very good.

The British liberal politician James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale (1835-1911) was initially a member of Parliament and subsequently appointed a peer. Kitson ran Gladstone's electoral campaign and supported Irish home rule, education and old age pensions. The first Lord Mayor of Leeds, he was a member of the Institution of Civil engineers and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, he was a supporter of the Mechanics Institute and Yorkshire College (later the University of Leeds). His home Gledhow Hall was the subject of a painting by J.M.W. Turner and William Morris designed a window for the Unitiatiran church's Mill Hill Chapel, frequented by Kitson, which he dedicated to Kitson's mother Ann. Very good .

Keywords: HISTORY; BRITISH; JAMES KITSON, 1ST BARON AIREDALE; AUTOGRAPH; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; ENGLISH; LIBERAL POLITICIAN; MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT; PEER; LORD MAYOR OF LEEDS; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY.

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