3-086-177 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Various portraits, 1898. 'The late Mr. Philip Hermogenes Calderon, R.A., died at Burlington House on the day of the Academy banquet; the late Mr. Charles Green, R.I., an admirable draughtsman, [known for] illustrations to the works of Charles Dickens; the late Mr. Caleb Wright, one of a family of thirteen children, sent out to work in a factory when he was nine years old...manager of a cotton-mill, founder of the firm of spinners, Caleb Wright and Co.; the late Sir Frederick Acclom Milbank, Bart., member for the North Riding of Yorkshire; Brigadier-General Hector MacDonald...[participated in the] brilliant victory on the Atbara, Afghan War, Transvaal War of 1881; the late Second Lieutenant Paul Alexander Gore, Seaforth Highlanders, [killed] in the Battle of Atbara, Soudan Campaign; the late Rev. J. H. Rose, vicar of Clerkenwell, seized with a fit while attending a vestry meeting, and never rallied; Mr. George Robertson, Mayor of the city of St. John, whose object in this country is the development of St. John as the recognised winter port of Canada. The chief aim of Mr. Robertson's mission is to secure Imperial aid towards the construction of a dry dock at this port; Senor Segismundo Bermejo, Spanish Minister of Marine.' From "Illustrated London News", 1898.