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Henry Charles Burdett, by John Paget Mellor - Vanity Fair, 14 July 1898
He was an English financier and philanthropist. He helped to establish the British Hospitals Association in 1884.
Horace Farquhar, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 2 June 1898
He was a British financier, courtier and Conservative politician. He died as an undisclosed bankrupt. He had no children, and all his titles became extinct.
Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, by Jean Baptiste Guth - Vanity Fair, 26 May 1898
French Army officer 1870-98. He gained notoriety as a spy for the German Empire & the actual perpetrator of the act of treason of which Captain Alfred Dreyfus was wrongfully accused & convicted in 1894
Mr Alfred Cooper, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 30 December 1897
He was a fashionable English surgeon and clubman of the late 19th century whose patients included Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. He is an ancestor of David Cameron, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
November 22, 1904: Mexican painter, caricaturist, and illustrator Miguel Covarrubias is born.
Throughout the 1920's, Miguel's unique illustrations could be found in magazines like Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.
🎨 "Elephants in the Jungle" 🐘
Max Beerbohm, by Walter Sickert - Vanity Fair, 9 December 1897
He was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist. Among his best-known works is his only novel, Zuleika Dobson, published in 1911.
Mr SR Crockett, by "FR" - Vanity Fair, 5 August 1897
Samuel Rutherford Crockett, who published under the name "S. R. Crockett", was a Scottish novelist. J. R. R. Tolkien credits him as an influence on his wolf-fight scenes.
Frederic Andrew Inderwick, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 30 July 1896
He was an English lawyer, antiquarian, and Liberal Party politician. As a barrister he mainly took divorce cases, which at the time was thought to have impeded his progress to judge.
Leslie Matthew Ward, a British portraitist who created over 1,300 caricatures for #VanityFair magazine, is @LindaHall_org's #ScientistOfTheDay.
Here we see two of his subjects, industrialist Henry Bessemer & anatomist Richard Owen.
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#histSTM #sciart
The Earl of Dartmouth, by Henry Charles Seppings Wright - Vanity Fair, 10 October 1895
William Heneage Legge was a British peer and Conservative politician. He served as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household between 1885 and 1886 and again between 1886 and 1891.
Rudolf Chambers Lehmann, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 17 January 1895
He was an English writer and Liberal Party politician. As a writer he was best known for three decades in which he was a major contributor to Punch as well as founding editor of Granta magazine.
Lord Charles Beresford, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 3 January 1895
Charles William de la Poer Beresford was a British admiral and Member of Parliament. He was considered by many to be a personification of John Bull, indeed was normally accompanied by his trademark, a bulldog.
Mr R Kipling, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 7 June 1894
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.
Robinson Ellis, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 24 May 1894
He was an English classical scholar. He is buried in St Sepulchre's Cemetery, Jericho, Oxford.
Mr G Alexander, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 22 February 1894
George Alexander, born George Alexander Gibb Samson, was an English stage actor, theatre producer and theatre manager.
Harry Lawson Webster Lawson, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 16 November 1893
He was a British newspaper proprietor. He was originally a Liberal politician before joining the Liberal Unionist Party in the late 1890s.
Mr W Allan, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 26 October 1893
William Allan was a Scottish Liberal Party politician and engineer. He published a number of books of traditional Scottish poetry.
Thomas Henry Bolton, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 12 October 1893
He as an English solicitor and a Liberal politician. He was admitted a solicitor 1869 and became a partner in the firm of Bolton & Mote, of Gray's Inn, London.
Lord Morris of Spiddal, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 14 September 1893
Michael Morris was an Irish lawyer and judge. He was Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland from 1887 to 1889 and sat in the House of Lords as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1889 to 1900.