The Strand Magazine/Volume 4/Issue 24/Portraits of Celebrities
Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times of their Lives.
MR. DADABHAM NAOROJI, M.P.
Born 1825.
Age 20.
From a Photo. by Rustumjee Jamsetjee, Poona.
R. NAOROJI, the first Indian Member of Parliament, was born in India, and brought up by his mother; his father, a Parsee priest, dying when he was five years old. He was educated in the Elphinstone Institution, where he had a brilliant career, ending in his appointment as Professor of Mathematics. In 1855 he came to this country as a partner in the firm of Cama and Co.—the first Indian house of business opened in England. He has always taken an active interest in social questions, especially in India, and his book on "The Poverty of India" is a standard work. His return to the House of Commons as member for Central Finsbury at the recent election has been received in India with wide-spread enthusiasm.
 From a Photograph. |
 From a Photo. by F. Baum. |
SIR HENRY PONSONBY.
Born 1825.
 From a Photo. by Maull & Co. |
 From a Photo. by Walery. |
ENERAL SIR HENRY FREDERICK PONSONBY, K.C.B., P.C., was born at Corfu, educated at Sandhurst, and appointed ensign in the 49th Regiment at seventeen, from which he was transferred to the Grenadier Guards, with whom he served in the Crimea. After the war he was appointed Equerry to the Prince Consort, and in 1870 Private Secretary to Her Majesty, which post he still holds.
MISS EDNA LYALL.
DNA LYALL, which is the nom-de-plume of Miss Ada Ellen Bayley, is the youngest daughter of the late Robert Bayley, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-law. She was born at Brighton, and has been heard to say, with a laugh, that she made up her mind at the age of ten to be a novelist. She had only just left school, and was still in her teens, when she wrote her first novel, "Won by Waiting"; but it was with "We Two" and "Donovan" that she made her first conspicuous hits. Miss Bayley has resided for the last few years at Eastbourne, before which time she was living at Lincoln. She is fond of travelling, and has seen much of Italy and Norway. When asked by an interviewer about the way her works were written, Miss Bayley stated: "The conception of my central character comes before my plot. I then plan the circumstances in which his individuality can be surrounded. I think every novel should have a purpose, provided it is not too prominently thrust forward. I write for two or three hours in the morning; but the time I take over my work varies." Miss Bayley is still young, and with her undeniable literary qualifications as an earnest thinker, being possessed of a vivid imagination, a delicate humour, and a simple, vigorous, as well as graceful style of writing, we may expect in the future to receive many more charming novels from her fertile pen. Perhaps less is known of the life and character of Edna Lyall than of any other writer of equal prominence of the present day. Indeed, till recently there has been a considerable amount of mystery as to who is this Edna Lyall that came to the front so rapidly as a novelist—a mystery which she has done little to clear up.
DR. W. H. RUSSELL.
Born 1821.
 From a Water Colour Drawing. |
 From a Photo. by Angerer, Vienna. |
R.RUSSELL, the Prince of War Correspondents, a most interesting account of whose career, told by his own lips, will be found in the Illustrated Interviews on another page, was, at the age at which our first portrait represents him, just returned from the Crimea, of which he gave so thrilling and graphic an account in the columns of the Times. Our second portrait shows him after the American War; while our third portrait dates after the taking of Sekukuni's stronghold. Our last portrait depicts him at the present day, wearing the many decorations which he has received during his stirring and adventurous career.
SIR NOEL PATON.
Born 1821.
 From a Pencil Drawing. |
From a Pencil Drawing. |
From a Photo. by John Drummond. |
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IR JOSEPH NOEL PATON, LL.D., was born at Dunfermline, was admitted a student of the Royal Academy at the age of twenty-two, and four years later gained a prize of £300 for his two pictures of "Christ Bearing the Cross" and the "Reconciliation of Oberon and Titania." In 1861 was painted what many consider to be his finest work, "Dawn: Luther at Erfurt." He was appointed the Queen's Limner for Scotland in 1865, and in 1867 received the honour of knighthood. Among the best known of his later pictures may be mentioned "Satan Watching the Sleep of Christ," "Christ the Great Shepherd," and "The Man with the Muck-rake."
ARCHDEACON FARRAR.
Born 1831.
Present Day.
From a Photo. by Barraud.
HE VEN. FREDERIC WILLIAM FARRAR, D.D., F.R.S., Archdeacon of Westminster, the son of the Rev. C. R. Farrar, Rector of Sidcup, was born in Bombay, and received his education at King William's College in the Isle of Man, and King's College, London, from which he passed to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he had a distinguished career. In 1854 he was ordained, and for many years was an Assistant Master at Harrow, where he wrote his well-known. book for boys, "Eric"; after which he held, with great distinction, the post of Head Master of Marlborough, during which he published "The Life of Christ," which ran through twelve editions in a single year. In 1876 he was appointed Canon of Westminster and Rector of St. Margaret's. In 1883 he was created Archdeacor of Westminster, which is, however, a post to which only a nominal salary is attached. Archdeacon Farrar has taken a prominent part in temperance reform and in many other philanthropic works.
MR. GEORGE NEWNES, M.P.
 From a Photo. by Foxlee, Cheapside. |
 From a Photo. by Howe, Newbury. |
e must apologize for intruding this set of portraits, but it has been done in consequence of the repeatedly expressed wish of readers of Tit-Bits and The Strand Magazine. The publication of a description of the offices in this number may, perhaps, claim for it a certain amount of appropriateness.