Vanity Gallery

John Passmore Edwards, Vanity Fair, Spy

JOHN PASSMORE EDWARDS MP (1823 - 1911) Liberal Member of Parliament for Salisbury, Philanthropist, British journalist, owner and editor of the London newspaper The Echo, champion of the working classes and generous benefactor. Caption: The Echo Date: 1823 - 1911

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Portraits of Victorian royalty, politicians and entertainers

In Vanity Fair -- portraits of Victorian royalty, politicians, entertainers and others, on a stage and below. Top row, left to right: Lord Salisbury and William Gladstone (on canvas), Leslie Ward (sketching), Louis Pasteur (with rabbits), Pablo Sarasate (violinist), Sims Reeves (singing), George Grossmith, Henry Irving (on canvas), Arthur Cecil, John Hare (smoking), Beerbohm Tree, Augustus Harris (in box office), W H Smith (seated). Bottom row, left to right: James Weatherby, Sir Robert Jardine, Lord Hartington, Major Egerton (with monocle), Edmund Tattersall, Prince George of Wales, Duke of Orleans, Duke of Connaught, Dr Tanner, T P O'Connor, Mr Justice Smith. Date: 1890

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Lord de Grey and Ripon , Vanity Fair, Ape

GEORGE FREDERICK SAMUEL ROBINSON, 1st Marquess of Ripon (1827-1909), known as Viscount Goderich (1833-59) and as the Earl de Grey and Ripon (1859-71). Born at 10 Downing Street, London, the second son of Prime Minister Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich. Although his father was a Tory, he sat as a Liberal member of Parliament for Hull, and later Huddersfield and the West Riding of Yorkshire as well as being a member of every Liberal Cabinet from 1861 until his death. Caption Qualis ab inepto Date: 1827-1909

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