3-086-070 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Various portraits, 1898. 'The late Rev. Samuel Davidson, D.D., LL.D., died at the age of ninety-one...sat on the Old Testament Revision Committee; Captain N. C. Maclachlan, Wounded in the Atbara Fight; the late Marquis of Exeter, [whose] death removes from the house of Cecil the head of its senior line; the late General Sir Henry James Warre, K.C.B., distinguished soldier, an explorer of notable intrepidity...led an investigation of the river route from Montreal to Red River Settlement, a duty in the course of which he traversed some two thousand three hundred miles by canoe...Served in the Crimea, taking part in the siege of Sebastopol, in the Indian Mutiny, the Maori War of 1861-66, Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army; the late Mr. Hamar Alfred Bass, M.P. for West Staffordshire; the late Major-General Major-General George Frederick Gildea, C.B., served in the Crimean War, the Boer War and the Soudan Campaign, Colonel and Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, will long be honourably remembered for his exertions on behalf of the welfare of discharged soldiers; the late Major-General Thomas Clerk of the Madras Staff Corps; the late Subadar-Major Muklis Ali Khan of the 14th Madras Infantry...[served in the last Burmese Campaign]'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.