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Charles Santley, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 27 February 1902
He was an English opera and oratorio singer with a bravura technique who became the most eminent English baritone and male concert singer of the Victorian era.
Francis Warre Warre-Cornish, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 26 September 1901
He was a British schoolmaster, scholar and writer. He married Blanche Ritchie, who was celebrated for her conversational powers and eccentricities.
Thomas Kelly-Kenny, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 29 August 1901
A British Army general who served in the Second Boer War. He died at Hove on 26 December 1914. He is buried in Hove Cemetery having left strict instructions in his will that he did not want a military funeral.
Frederick William Walker, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 27 June 1901
He was an English headmaster who was successively High Master of Manchester Grammar School and St Paul's School, London.
Scorn review – Giger-inspired horror puzzler is a revulsive but rewarding nightmare
An evocative work of art but the things the game evokes are so unpleasant players might need to ration the lengths of their sessions https://t.co/FzGqUjWk7H
Sir John Talbot-Dillwyn-Llewellyn, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 11 October 1900
He was a British Conservative Member of Parliament who was notable for his links to Welsh sports. His eldest son, the cricketer Willie Llewelyn, committed suicide in August 1893.
George Wyndham, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 20 September 1900
He was a British Conservative politician, statesman, man of letters, and one of The Souls, a small loosely-knit but distinctive elite social and intellectual group in the UK from 1885 to the turn of the century.
William Dudley Ward, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 29 March 1900
He was an English sportsman and Liberal politician. He reportedly "had a liking for the fleshpots and was known, on occasions, to turn up for training still dressed in white tie and tails."
John Strutt, by F T Dalton - Vanity Fair, 21 Dec 1899
English mathematician and physicist. He received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies."
Kannon Riding a Dragon, 1890, by Harada Naojirō
Guanyin is a Bodhisattva associated with compassion. In Japanese, Guanyin is pronounced Kannon