3-070-758 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

"After dinner, over a glass of fine old Madeira, when the ladies had retired, he loved to recount the story of his floggings", 1881. No. XV. - the Rector. His style and title was the Reverend David Guy, Rector of Muchmore-cum-Pluribus, in Berkshire... Guy was about fifty-five, of the right sort of height, with thin greyish hair, and sandy whiskers turning to grey. Of a rather flabby face and peaked nose. They used to call him "Snipe" at Eton, where, by-the-way, he had been flogged twenty-three times, being second in flagellatory honours to none of his contemporaries, excepting Mr. (afterwards the Duke of) Beresford. After dinner, over a glass of fine old Madeira, when the ladies had retired, he loved to recount the story of his floggings; and succeeded in leaving on his hearers the impression that he richly merited twenty-two of them at the least'. Illustration from "People I Have Met", published in "Illustrated London News", 1881.