Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times of their Lives.
THE LORD BISHOP OF MARLBOROUGH.
Born 1832.
Age 26. From a Photograph.
Age 38. From a Photograph.
Age 45. From a Photograph.
Present Day. From a Photo. by Elliott & Fry.
HE RIGHT REV. ALFRED EARLE, D.D., was educated at Oxford, and ordained deacon at twenty-six, at which age he is represented in our first portrait. For some time he held the appointment of Vicar of Marlborough, whence he was transferred to West Alvington, in the diocese of Exeter. At the age of thirty-three he was made Canon and Prebendary of Exeter, and at forty received the appointment of Archdeacon of Totnes. A few months ago he was created Rector of St. Michael's, Cornhill, and Bishop Suffragan of London, under the title of Bishop of Marlborough.
MISS FRANCES POWER COBBE.
Born 1822.
Age 20. From a Photo. by Brigge, Baker St.
Age 55. From a Photo. by H. le Lieure, Rome.
Age 40. From a Photo. by Maull & Fox, London.
Present Day. From a Photo. by Bassano, Old Bond St.
ISS FRANCES POWER COBBE, daughter of Mr. Charles Cobbe, of Newbridge House, Co. Dublin, D.L., J.P. (who fought at Assaye as lieutenant in the 19th Light Dragoons), was born December 4th, 1822, and educated at Brighton. She has been a frequent contributor to the periodicals of the day, and is the author of a great number of works on the Rights and Higher Education of Women, and more than a hundred pamphlets and leaflets on the vivisection question. Miss Cobbe resided for some years in Bristol with the late Mary Carpenter, for the purpose of working at her reformatory and ragged schools; and subsequently interested herself in plans for befriending young servants and for the relief of destitute incurables. After a residence in Italy she settled in London, and, besides her literary work, was engaged in promoting the movement for obtaining Parliamentary suffrage for women. In 1880-81 she twice delivered to audiences of ladies a course of lectures on the Duties of Women; these have been largely circulated in America, and also translated and published in Danish, Italian, and French. During the last fifteen years Miss Cobbe has been principally occupied in founding and directing as Hon. Sec. the Victoria Street Society for the Protection of Animals from Vivisection, an association of which the late Lord Shaftesbury was President.
PRINCE EDWARD OF SAXE-WEIMAR.
Born 1823.
Age 12. From a Miniature.
Age 23. From a Drawing by Bryant.
Present Day. From a Photo. by Chancellor, Dublin.
RINCE WILLIAM AUGUSTUS EDWARD OF SAXE-WEIMAR was born at Bushey Park, and is a Colonel in the 1st Regiment of Life Guards. In 1851, at the age of twenty-eight, he married, by a morganatic marriage, Augusta Lennox, daughter of the fifth Duke of Richmond and Gordon, who, by a special decree of the Queen, bears the title in England of Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar.
PROFESSOR MAX-MÜLLER.
Born 1823.
Age 4. From a Drawing.
Age 20. From a Drawing.
ROFESSOR FREDERICH MAX-MÜLLER, one of the most eminent scholars and teachers of languages alive, is the son of the celebrated German poet, Wilhelm Müller, and was born and educated at Dessau. At twenty-three he came to England and took up his residence at Oxford, where he was appointed a Professor of Languages. His books, among the most popular of which is "Chips From a German Workshop," are written with a charm of style which few Englishmen could equal, and his influence, not only in England but abroad, especially India, has greatly helped the study of Oriental languages, and thrown much fresh light upon the origin of the religions and superstitions of mankind. Our last portrait shows him as a Member of the Institute of France (of which he is one of the eight foreign members) and wearing the insignia of the Ordre pour le Mérite. He is also one of the ten foreign members of the Reale Accademia dei Lincei of Rome, and has received the Order of the Northern Star of Sweden.
DAVID MURRAY, A.R.A.
Born 1849.
Age 7. From a Daguerreotype by Kennedy, Glasgow.
Age 30. From a Photo. by D. C. Cox, Dundee.
Age 20. From a Photo. by Alexander Brothers, Glasgow.
Present Day. From a Photo. by the London Stereoscopic Company.
R. DAVID MURRAY was born at Glasgow, and was at first intended to follow a commercial career, and it was only on Saturdays, when he was free from business, that he could find time to follow his inclinations in the study of art. His natural gift was, however, too powerful to be kept down by any pressure of unfavourable circumstances, and in 1882 his picture, "Glen Sannox," was one of the attractions of the Royal Academy, and gave promise of that happy rendering of Scotch scenery for which his name has since become so well known. Another of his pictures, "My Love Has Gone a-Sailing," was purchased for the nation under the Chantrey bequest; and in January, 1891, Mr. Murray was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy, and has exhibited more than a hundred water-colour sketches at the Fine Art Society.
GENERAL LORD ROBERTS.
Born 1832.
Age 19. From a Daguerreotype.
Age 55. From a Photo. by G. G. Brown, Bangalore.
Age 48. From a Photo. by Maull & Fox.
Present Day. From a Photo. by Johnson & Hoffmann, India.
ENERAL LORD ROBERTS is the son of the late Sir Abraham Roberts, G.C.B., and received his first commission, as second lieutenant in the Bengal Artillery, at nineteen. He served with distinction through the Indian Mutiny, and received the Victoria Cross for personal bravery at twenty-six, for having rescued, single-handed, a standard from two Sepoys, after a desperate fight. He served through the Abyssinian and Afghan campaigns, in the latter of which he held the chief command, and after a series of brilliant victories inflicted a crushing defeat on Ayoob Khan. On his return to England in 1880, aged 48, he was loaded with honours, presented with the freedom of London, received the thanks of Parliament, and was created a Baronet. In 1885 he was appointed Commander-in-Chief in India, and recently received the title of Baron Roberts of Candahar.
ENERAL LORD ROBERTS is the son of the late Sir Abraham Roberts, G.C.B., and received his first commission, as second lieutenant in the Bengal Artillery, at nineteen. He served with distinction through the Indian Mutiny, and received the Victoria Cross for personal bravery at twenty-six, for having rescued, single-handed, a standard from two Sepoys, after a desperate fight. He served through the Abyssinian and Afghan campaigns, in the latter of which he held the chief command, and after a series of brilliant victories inflicted a crushing defeat on Ayoob Khan. On his return to England in 1880, aged 48, he was loaded with honours, presented with the freedom of London, received the thanks of Parliament, and was created a Baronet. In 1885 he was appointed Commander-in-Chief in India, and recently received the title of Baron Roberts of Candahar.