Pelham Warner, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 3 September 1903

Affectionately and better known as Plum Warner or "the Grand Old Man" of English cricket, he was a Test cricketer and cricket administrator. He was knighted for services to sport in the 1937 Coronation Honours.

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RG Broadwood, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 27 August 1903

Lieutenant General Robert George Broadwood was Commander of British Troops in South China and also served in the Boer War where played a large role in the Battle of Driefontein.

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Charles Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 30 July 1903

He was a British peer. Unusually for a wealthy nobleman of the period, he began several businesses connected with road transport, with mixed success.

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Rakugaki : "Life's not fair, I shall never be king"

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That's fair, I guess I'm just a sucker for cream and chains

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Sir Edmund Barton, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 16 October 1902

He as an Australian politician and judge who served as the first prime minister of Australia 1901-03, holding office as the leader of the Protectionist Party.

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Whitelaw Reid, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 25 September 1902

He was an American politician and newspaper editor, as well as the author of Ohio in the War, a popular work of history. He died while serving as the ambassador to Britain on December 15, 1912.

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Theodore Roosevelt, by James Montgomery Flagg - Vanity Fair, 4 September 1902

He was an American politician, statesman, soldier, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

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Admiral Sir Archibald Lucius Douglas, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 3 July 1902

He was a Royal Navy officer. He is credited with having introduced the sport of football to Japanese naval cadets.

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My work for !

Medieval AU • Queen Utahime and her dutiful knight Gojo are hiding their affair, so they have a clandestine meeting in the the castle gardens..

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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."

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"Being this cute is unfair, Senpai..."

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Émile Loubet, by Jean Baptiste Guth - Vanity Fair, 18 May 1899

He was the 45th Prime Minister of France from February to December 1892 and later President of France from 1899 to 1906. He retired into private life and died on 20 December 1929 at the age of 90.

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