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The Rt Hon GW Hunt, by Carlo Pellegrini - Vanity Fair, 11 March 1871
Known in later life as 'Jingo' Hunt, he was an English writer of music hall songs, best known for "MacDermott's War Song" also known as the "Jingo Song".
Baron de Brunnow, by Carlo Pellegrini - Vanity Fair, 3 December 1870
Ernst Philipp Graff von Brunnow was a Baltic German diplomat who served in the Russian Empire.
Count von Bismarck-Schoenausen, by James Tissot - Vanity Fair, 15 October 1870
Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck was a conservative German statesman and diplomat
Stafford Northcote, by Carlo Pellegrini - Vanity Fair, 8 October 1870
He was a British Conservative politician. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1874 and 1880 and as Foreign Secretary between 1885 and 1886
Alexander Beresford Hope, by Carlo Pellegrini - Vanity Fair, 10 September 1870
He was a British author and Conservative politician. He wrote on on archaeological, architectural, ecclesiastical and artistic subjects.
Lord Houghton, by Carlo Pellegrini - Vanity Fair, 3 September 1870
Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, was an English poet, patron of literature and a politician who strongly supported social justice.
Henry Bulwer, by Carlo Pellegrini - Published in Vanity Fair, 27 August 1870
He was a British Liberal politician, diplomat and writer. A Freemason, he became the first district grand master for Turkey under the United Grand Lodge of England in 1862.
Lord Henry Lennox, by Carlo Pellegrini - Vanity Fair, 30 July 1870
He was a British Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1846 to 1885 and was a close friend of Benjamin Disraeli.
John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer, by Carlo Pellegrini - Published in Vanity Fair, 2 July 1870
Known as the Red Earl because of his distinctive long red beard, he was a British Liberal Party politician under, and close friend of, British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone.
EH Knatchbull-Hugessen MP., by Carlo Pellegrini - Vanity Fair, 11 June 1870
He was a British Liberal and later Conservative politician. In a letter of 1971, J. R. R. Tolkien recalled that, as a small child, his bedtime reading was the fairy stories of Knatchbull-Hugessen.
William Vernon Harcourt, by Alfred Thompson - Vanity Fair, 4 June 1870
He was a British lawyer, journalist and Liberal statesman. He held the offices of Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer under Gladstone before becoming Leader of the Opposition.
Sir Joseph Hawley, by Alfred Thompson - Vanity Fair, 21 May 1870
He was a noted English thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder.
Prince Teck, by Alfred Thompson - Vanity Fair, 14 May 1870
He was an Austrian-born nobleman who married into the British royal family. He was the father of Queen Mary, and thus a great-grandfather of the previous British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.
Admiral Henry John Rous, by Alfred Thompson - Published in Vanity Fair, 7 May 1870
He was an officer of the British Royal Navy, who served during the Napoleonic Wars, and was later a Member of Parliament and a leading figure in horse racing.
Sir John Coleridge, by Alfred Thompson - Vanity Fair, 30 April 1870
Lawyer, judge and Liberal politician, he held the posts of Solicitor General for England and Wales, Attorney General for England and Wales, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Lord Chief Justice of England.
Lord Dufferin, by Alfred Thompson - Vanity Fair, 9 April 1870
Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood was a British public servant. In his youth he was a popular figure in the court of Queen Victoria, and published a best-selling account of his travels in the North Atlantic.
Frederick Pollock, by Alfred Thompson - Published in Vanity Fair, 2 April 1870
He was a British lawyer and Tory politician. He contributed a number of papers in mathematics to the Royal Society, including one on what is now known as the Pollock's conjecture.
The Duke of Richmond, by Alfred Thompson - Vanity Fair, 26 March 1870
Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox was a British Conservative politician.
Sir Robert Peel, by Alfred Thompson - Published in Vanity Fair, 19 March 1870
He was a British Peelite, Liberal and from 1884 until 1886 Conservative Member of Parliament (MP).
The Peelites were a breakaway dissident political faction of the Conservatives from 1846 to 1859.