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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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George Frederic Watts, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 26 December 1891

He was a British painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. He said "I paint ideas, not things."

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Henry Tufton, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 17 August 1889

He was a British peer, Liberal politician and prominent owner and breeder of racehorses.

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Archibald Levin Smith, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 3 November 1888

He was a British judge and a rower who competed at Henley and in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.

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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.

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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.

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Appreciating PenPals -DAY 504-
I may be bad at directions... I may get lost easily... but I will not stop waddling because I have PenPals besides me 😉💛 Thank you~!


Art by @/LeslieEmptyArt

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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'

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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,

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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.

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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.

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