3-086-021 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Various portraits, 1898. 'Mr. Fiennes Stanley Wykeham Cornwallis M.P., son of Major Fiennes Cornwallis, 4th Light Dragoons (who took part in the famous Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava); the late Lady Glenesk, helper of many charities and good works; the late Earl of Strafford, First Commissioner of the Civil Service, Parliamentary Secretary to the Poor Law Board, Under-Secretary of State for India; Lieutenant S. C. Welchman, West African Frontier Force; Captain Percy Gerald Walker, B. S. C., Wing Commander of the 20th Punjab Infantry, Indian Frontier Campaign; the late General George Samuel Montgomery, soldier with a long and distinguished record, being severely wounded and having his horse shot under him; the late Sir John Arnott, Bart., owner of the Cork and Passage Docks, chairman of the Bristol Steam Navigation Company, proprietor of the Irish Times, High Sheriff of Cork; the late Mrs. Delia Parnell, mother of the Irish leader, died [after she] accidentally set her dress on fire; Veterinary-Captain A. J. Haslam, selected for special service in East Africa, to organise and direct animal transport in connection with the Uganda Railway. The country for more than ninety miles is infested with the tsetse fly'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.