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Polydore de Keyser, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 26 November 1887
He was a lawyer and the first Roman Catholic since the Reformation to be elected Lord Mayor of London (October 1887–November 1888). He was born in the Belgian city of Dendermonde, near Ghent, Belgium.
William Ewart Gladstone, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 5 November 1887
He served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four non-consecutive terms beginning in 1868 and ending in 1894.
Lord Coleridge, by Carlo Pellegrini - Vanity Fair, 5 March 1887
John Duke Coleridge was an English lawyer, judge and Liberal politician. Despite his health failing towards the end of his life he remained in this office until his death on 14 June 1894, aged 74.
Louis Pasteur, by Théobald Chartran - Vanity Fair, 8 January 1887
Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization.
Sir AK Rollit, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 9 October 1886
Albert Kaye Rollit was a British politician, lawyer, and businessman. His second wife's jewellery, then valued at £30,000, was stolen by international jewel-thief William Johnson, known as 'Harry the Valet'
The Very Rev RW Church, by Liborio Prosperi - Vanity Fair, 30 January 1886
Richard William Church was an English churchman and writer, known latterly as Dean Church. While Dean of St Paul's, he was patron of Saint Martin's League for letter carriers.
Sir Robert Harvey, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 7 November 1885
was an English Conservative Party politician. His father was an illegitimate son of Sir Robert Bateson-Harvey,
Richard John Lloyd Price Of Rhiwlas, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 10 October 1885
He was a journalist, author, and judge at field trials and dog shows — best known as the organizer of the first sheepdog trials held in the U.K.
Richard Corney Grain, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 22 August 1885
He was an entertainer and songwriter of the late Victorian era. He died of "epidemic influenza" on 16 March 1895.
Samuel Charles Allsopp, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 1 August 1885
He as a British businessman and Conservative politician and died in July 1897, aged 55
William Pery, by Carlo Pellegrini - Vanity Fair, 11 July 1885
He was an Irish peer and Conservative politician. He served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard under Lord Salisbury between 1889-92 and again between 1895 and his death in 1896.
L Arditi, by Carlo Pellegrini - Vanity Fair, 21 March 1885
Luigi Arditi was an Italian violinist, composer and conductor. He died at Hove, near Brighton (England); he is buried in Hove Cemetery.
James Patrick Mahon, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 17 January 1885
He was an Irish nationalist journalist, barrister, parliamentarian and international mercenary.
Oscar Wilde, by Carlo Pellegrini - Vanity Fair, 24 May 1884
He was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s.
Hubert von Herkomer., by Franz Goedecker - Vanity Fair, 26 January 1884
He was a Bavarian-born British painter, pioneering film-director, and composer. He is mainly remembered for his earlier works that took a realistic approach to the conditions of life of the poor.
Charles Edward Howard Vincent, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 22 Dec 1883
A British soldier, barrister, police official & Conservative Party politician. His characteristic interjection of a sarcastic 'Yah, yah!' into the opposition speeches continued until his death aged 59, 1908
Edward Leeson, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 24 November 1883
He was an Anglo-Irish peer. On his death the title passed to his brother Henry Leeson who died a year later when the title fell dormant (pending any claim by Robert Leeson's descendants).
The Earl of Westmorland, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 10 Nov 1883
Francis William Henry Fane was a British Army Officer and racehorse owner. His horses never won any of the Classics and he was known to place heavy stakes. Eventually his finances forced him to sell his horses.
Mr CC Cotes, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 13 October 1883
Charles Cecil Cotes was a British landowner and Liberal politician. He died suddenly at Woodcote Hall, of a heart attack, in August 1898, aged 52. He was unmarried and his estates passed to his brother.