PORT BLAIR, ANDAMAN ISLANDS - VICEROY’S ASSASSINATION 1872 ENGRAVINGS

Original Engravings titled PORT BLAIR, ANDAMAN ISLANDS, THE SCENE OF THE LATE VICEROY’S ASSASSINATION.

Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, KP, GCSI, PC (1822 – 1872), called Lord Mayo in India, was a statesman, Viceroy of India and prominent member of the British Conservative Party from Dublin, Ireland. While visiting the convict settlement at Port Blair in the Andaman Islands in 1872 for the purpose of inspection, he was assassinated by Sher Ali Afridi, an Afridi Pathan convict who used a knife. Mayo's body was brought home to Ireland and buried at the medieval ruined church in Johnstown, County Kildare, near his home at Palmerstown House. Afridi was hanged.

From The Graphic March 16th, 1872
The Graphic was a British weekly illustrated newspaper, first published on 4 December 1869 by William Luson Thomas's company Illustrated Newspapers Limited. It continued to be published weekly under this title until 23 April 1932 and then changed title to The National Graphic between 28 April and 14 July 1932; it then ceased publication, after 3,266 issues.

Page size 15 1/2 inch x 11 1/2 inch

The engravings are in very good condition. Printed text on the reverse.