The Strand Magazine/Volume 2/Issue 8/Portraits of Celebrities
Portraits of Celebrities at different times of their Lives.
THE DUKE OF NORFOLK.
Born 1847.
ENRY FITZ-ALAN HOWARD,
Age 15.
From a Photo. by Maull & Fox.
his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, premier Duke and Earl, was born in Carlton-terrace, December 27, 1847, and succeeded to the title on the death of his father in 1860; so that even at fifteen, the age at which the first of our three portraits represents him, he had already been for three years Duke of Norfolk. His Grace, who is a zealous Roman Catholic, takes the most active interest in all matters relating to the welfare of his Church, and frequently fills the chair at meetings of his fellow-Catholics. He is President of the Catholic Union of Great Britain. It was to him that Dr. Newman addressed, in the year 1875, his memorable reply to Mr. Gladstone's "Political Expostulation." The Duke of Norfolk is one of the strongest opponents of Home Rule, in which matter he has brought himself into collision with the Irish priesthood. The Duke married, in 1877, Lady Flora Hastings, who died in 1887.
 From a Photo. by Maull & Fox. |
 From a Photo. by Russell & Sons. |
THE GERMAN EMPEROR.
Born 1859.
Even in the first of these we see the distinguished monarch, characteristically enough, saluting in military fashion; and at the various stages of his youth he looks every inch a soldier. His ages are:
- No. 1, age 2.
- No. 2, age 4.
- No. 3, age 7.
- No. 4, age 9.
- No. 5, age 10.
- No. 6, age 14.
- No. 7, age 21.
- No. 8, age 31.
THE GERMAN EMPRESS.
HE present is a particularly fitting moment for the publication of the photographs of the German Emperor and Empress at various ages of their lives, when their memorable visit is still fresh in the memory of all, and while the shop-windows are crowded with their portraits. Nothing could be more interesting than the first photograph here given of the German Empress—the only one taken at an early age known to exist—which shows her as a little girl of ten years old, taken when her father, the Duke Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein, was entirely undertaking her education and that of her younger sisters. In the second likeness we see her when sought in marriage by the Emperor, at twenty-two, and in the last surrounded by five sturdy little sons.
J. ASHBY STERRY.
ORN in London, Mr. Sterry commenced descriptive writing at the age of four; at 
Present Day.
From a Photo. by Robinson, Tunbridge Wells.
eight, he wrote a story in a series of letters; at ten, fell down in worship before the genius of Charles Dickens; and shortly afterwards, having read a life of Nelson, vowed that he would become an admiral. Fortunately this fit did not last very long, and he returned to art, sketching, and writing, until, at the age of twenty-two, he made a serious start in life with an entertainment called, "Autumn Leaves from a Tourist's Note Book," writing his own lecture and lyrics, and being his own scene painter and musical composer. With this entertainment he travelled round the country, and was welcomed and successful wherever he showed his genial face. Among his countless contributions to Punch are "Lays of a Lazy Minstrel" and "Songs of the Street." The friends of Mr. Ashby Sterry are attached to him not only for his rare talents, but for an exceptional kindness of nature which imparts a peculiar sweetness to their personal intercourse and association with him.
MISS FORTESCUE.
 From a Photograph. |
 From a Photo. by Hill & Saunders. |
ISS FORTESCUE at the early ages of four and eight displayed no especial tendencies 
towards the stage. Her early life was the ordinary one of an English country gentleman's daughter, while she became an adept at foreign languages, and conversant not only with the three "R's," but with two more—riding and rowing. At the former, indeed, she was "a wonder across country," and at the present time there is nothing she likes more than a "scamper," or a day on the river. Miss Fortescue made her first appearance on the stage as "Lady Ella" in Patience. In two years she was playing the heroine in Dan'l Druce, at the Court Theatre. Immediately after this she was engaged for a starring tour through England and America, and on her return from the United States, Mr. Augustus Harris secured her services for Drury Lane Theatre, where she was probably the youngest "leading lady" ever engaged at the national theatre. In 1886 she started on her first theatrical enterprise on her own account. Since then she has been her own manageress, and has conducted her long tours and short London seasons with unvarying and increasing success. Miss Fortescue was always a beautiful woman, and in the last two or three years her talent and resource in her art have been been so generally admitted as to have passed beyond the region of dispute. She is a brilliant and remarkably intellectual conversationalist.
AUGUSTUS HARRIS.
Born 1852.
Age 10.
From a Photo. by Southwell Bros.
Age 17.
Stereoscopic Co.
MR. AUGUSTUS HARRIS's father achieved world-wide reputation as a stage manager, and it is now admitted that the fame of the father has been eclipsed by that of the son. Mr. Augustus Harris, as a very young man, played Malcolm at the Theatre Royal Manchester; and he afterwards joined Mr. Barry Sullivan's company, in which he played juvenile and light comedy parts. The most important step in his career was taken when he succeded Mr. Chatterton as lessee of Drury Lane Theatre, and from that date his onward march has been triumphantly successful. But Mr. Harris has not been content with fame won upon the lyric and dramatic stage. Ambitious for public honours he became a candidate for a seat in the London County Council, and, being elected, has proved a worthy and useful member of that body. His election last year as Sheriff of London has conferred distinction upon the art he properly represents.
HALL CAINE.
Born 1853.
R. HALL CAINE, one of the most original and powerful of our later novelists, is only now in his thirty-eighth year, and may be therefore said to have attained celebrity at an early period of life. He was born August 14, 1853, at Runcorn, in Lancashire, and is doubtless indebted to his Manx parentage and to the reminiscences of his childhood for much of his peculiar power as an author. Originally intended for an architect, he studied for that profession in Liverpool, but at the age of twenty he commenced a career as a journalist, the stepping-stone of so many other famous novelists. In 1880 he came to London, and spent a precious year with D. G. Rossetti, by whose bedside he sat when that gifted poet drew his last breath. During that period Mr. Caine contributed to the The Athenæum and The Academy. His "Sonnets of Three Centuries" were published in 1881, and were followed by "Recollections of Rossetti" (1882), "Cobwebs of Criticism" (1883), and "Life of Coleridge" (1886). Before the publication of this latter work he wrote his first novel, "The Shadow of a Crime," which immediately attracted attention to him as a novelist of rare originality. "The Deemster" (1887), and "The Bondman" (1890), confirmed the hopes entertained of him, and set the seal upon his fame.
HENRY LABOUCHERE.
Born 1831.
R. HENRY LABOUCHERE is the eldest son of the late John Labouchere, of Broome Park, 
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(From a Photo. by Maclure, Macdonald & Co., Glasgow.)
Surrey, in the nursery of which house our first portrait represents him in the company of his toy horse. At the age of fourteen, as in our second portrait, he was a boy at Eton. In his early days Mr. Labouchere was a great traveller, and during his sojourn in the Wild West his romantic tastes and love of adventure led him to join, for a time, a tribe of Chippewa Indians, with whom he roamed over the prairies. Through the influence of his uncle, Lord Taunton, he entered the diplomatic service in 1854, and was successively Attaché at Washington, Munich, Stockholm, Frankfort, St. Petersburg, and Dresden. At the age of our third portrait Mr. Labouchere had left the service two years, and had entered Parliament as Liberal member for Windsor. In 1880 he was returned for Northampton at the head of the poll, and has sat for that borough ever since. Mr. Labouchere is proprietor and editor of Truth and part-proprietor of The Daily News, and he is noted as a writer for the same qualities that make him popular as a speaker—his vivacity of style, and quick, lively repartee.