The Strand Magazine/Volume 4/Issue 21/Portraits of Celebrities
Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times of their Lives.
SIR HENRY HAWKINS.
Born 1816.
Present Day
From a Photo. by Elliott & Fry.
HE HON. SIR HENRY HAWKINS is a son of Mr. J. H. Hawkins, solicitor, and was born at Hitchin. He was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple at the age of twenty-seven, becoming a Q.C. at forty-two. He enjoyed one of the largest practices ever known, his power of cross-examining witnesses and of addressing the jury being unrivalled. He was engaged in the prosecution of the Claimant in the memorable Tichborne Trial. He was appointed Judge of the High Court of Justice in the Queen's Bench Division at sixty, the age at which the fourth of our portraits represents him.
GEORGE GROSSMITH.
Born 1847.
 From a Painting. |
 From a Photo. by Thrupp, Birmingham. |
 From a Photo. by Poulton, Strand. |
 From a Photo. by Alfred Ellis. |
HIS inimitably funny actor and entertainer was the son of a humorous lecturer, and, after being educated at the North London Collegiate School, commenced life as a reporter at Bow Street, at which occupation he continued till he was thirty, becoming well known as an amateur actor and comic singer of great promise. In 1877 he made his début on the London stage as John Wellington Wells in "The Sorcerer," and afterwards played in all the Gilbert-Sullivan operas until 1889. Since that time he has chiefly restricted himself to entertainments, writing many of the bright sketches in which he appears. His latest production is the music of "Haste to the Wedding" at the Criterion.
FRANK DICKSEE, R.A.
Born 1853.
Present Day.
From a Photo. by Ball, Waterloo Place, S.W.
R. FRANK DICKSEE is the son of Mr. Thomas Francis Dicksee, the artist, from whom he received his first instruction in art. At the age of seventeen he entered the Royal Academy as a student, and two years later gained a silver medal for a drawing from the antique. At twenty-five he obtained a gold medal for an historical painting, "Elijah confronting Ahab and Jezebel in Naboth's Vineyard," and in the following year exhibited the picture. At that time he also worked at drawings for book illustrations, and made some designs for stained glass. Mr. Dicksee was only twenty-four when he exhibited his well-known picture, entitled "Harmony," which has attained such wide-spread popularity as an etching. At the age of twenty-eight he was elected an A. R. A.; his promotion to the rank of Royal Academician took place a few months ago. Among the best known of Mr. Dicksee's pictures may be mentioned "Evangeline," (1879), "The Love Story" (1883), "Romeo and Juliet" (1884), "Memories" (1886), "The Passing of Arthur" (1889), "The Redemption of Tannhäuser" (1890), to which may now be added "Startled," exhibited in the Royal Academy of the present year as his diploma work, on his election as an Academician.
CHARLES H. HAWTREY.
Born 1858.
 From a Photo. by Hills & Saunders, Eton. |
 From a Photo. by Runiele & Son, Eton. |
 From a Photo. by Hills & Saunders, Eton. |
 From a Photo. by Bassano. |
R. CHARLES HENRY HAWTREY, author, actor, and manager, is the fifth son of the Rev. J. W. Hawtrey, and was born at Eton, where his father was an assistant master, and was educated at Eton and Oxford. At the age of twenty-three he went on the stage in "The Colonel," and three years later wrote the phenomenally-successful play, "The Private Secretary," which was performed no fewer than 844 times consecutively, and which has lately been revived with fresh success. Since that time Mr. Hawtrey has produced several plays, of which the most successful, "Jane," had a very long run.
MISS WINIFRED EMERY.
SABEL WINIFRED MAUD EMERY, now Mrs. Cyril Maude, was born at Manchester, her father being Mr. Samuel Emery, the well-known comedian. Miss Emery appeared in public at the age of eight, as The Child, in "Green Bushes," at the Alexandra Theatre, Liverpool. Some time after this she was sent to school for several years, and did not return to the stage until she was sixteen, when she began at once to take her place as an actress of the greatest charm and promise. Her impersonation of Marguerite and Olivia at the Lyceum during Ellen Terry's indisposition received the warmest praise. Her latest success has been in the part of Lady Windermere.
SIR EVELYN WOOD, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., V.C.
Born 1838.
 From a Chalk Drawing. |
 From a Painting. |
 From a Photo. by Maull & Fox. |
 From a Photograph. |
ENERAL SIR HENRY EVELYN WOOD, the son of the late Rev. John Page Wood, was educated at Marlborough, and served with distinction in the Naval Brigade during the Crimean War, but in 1855 he joined the Light Dragoons as ensign, served through the Indian Mutiny, when he gained the Victoria Cross for conspicuous bravery. In 1873 he took part in the Ashantee Campaign, and led the advance to the river Prah. For his services at the capture of Coomassie he was made a C.B. In the Zulu War of 1879 he led the flying column Cetewayo's Kraal, and played a brilliant part in the battle of Ulundi. In the Boer War of 1881 he became Commander-in-chief at the disaster of Majuba Hill, and was also commander of the Army of Occupation in Egypt the year following. Such is the briefest possible summary of an exceptionally brilliant career.