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18-1302London: Vanity Fair 1874. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Good. Some toning foxing and creases and a vertical fold down the center. Letterpress clipping with biography of subject pasted on verso. Dated 14 Nov 1874. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Christopher Sykes 1831 – 15 December 1898 was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1892. He was a friend of Edward VII as Prince of Wales. Sykes was the second son of Sir Tatton Sykes 4th Baronet and his wife Mary Ann Foulis daughter of Sir William Foulis 7th Baronet. His father was a popular horse breeder who bred bloodstock; however he was an authoritarian father who bullied his children. Sykes was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College Cambridge. He began mixing with London's great and good and became a connoisseur of books china and furniture. He was a Deputy Lieutenant and J.P. for the East Riding of Yorkshire. At the 1865 general election Sykes was elected Conservative Member of Parliament MP for Beverley. At the 1868 general election he was elected MP for the East Riding of Yorkshire. He held this seat until 1885 when it was divided under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 and was then elected for Buckrose one of the constituencies into which his previous constituency had been divided. He held the seat until 1892. Between 1868 and 1892 he made only six speeches and did not speak on any particular issue except in favour of a bill for the preservation of seabirds earning him the nickname Gull's Friend. He was considered to be the basis for the character "Mr Brauncepath" in Lothair the novel by Benjamin Disraeli. He was honoured with the Order of St. Lazarus of Belgium in 1879. Sykes became a close friend of Edward VII as Prince of Wales. The Prince was entertained in great splendour at Brantingham Thorpe Sykes' country house in Yorkshire during the Doncaster Races and at his London home in Berkeley Square. The Prince exploited his friend and subjected him to humiliations for example on one occasion poured a decanter of brandy over his head. However Sykes's lavish entertainment of the Marlborough House Set soon put a strain on his finances. Nearly bankrupted in 1890 Sykes was forced to sell both Brantingham Thorpe and his London home. At a general election two years later he lost his parliamentary seat. Despite this the Prince of Wales never forgot his devoted friend and after Sykes' death in 1898 he installed a tablet to his memory at Westminster Abbey. London: Vanity Fair, 1874. unknown
18-1347London: Vanity Fair 1885. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Good. Toning and stains with minor loss in bottom edge. Dated 21 Feb 1885. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Charles Henry Wilson 1st Baron Nunburnholme 22 April 1833 – 27 October 1907 was a prominent English shipowner who became head of the Thomas Wilson Sons & Co. shipping business. Together with his brother he expanded the activities of the company into one of the largest in Britain. He also served as Liberal MP for Hull for thirty years and in 1906 received the title Baron Nunburnholme. London: Vanity Fair, 1885. unknown
18-1339London: Vanity Fair 1885. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Very Good. Minor toning and wrinkling in margins not affecting image. Dated 31 Oct 1885. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Charles Thomson Ritchie 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee PC 19 November 1838 – 9 January 1906 was a British businessman and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 until 1905 when he was raised to the peerage. He served as Home Secretary from 1900 to 1902 and as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1902 to 1903. London: Vanity Fair, 1885. unknown
18-1297London: Vanity Fair 1875. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Good. Some toning and foxing and a vertical fold down the center. Letterpress clipping with biography of subject pasted on verso. Dated 3 Apr 1875. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Dwight Lyman Moody February 5 1837 – December 22 1899 also known as D. L. Moody was an American evangelist and publisher connected with the Holiness Movement who founded the Moody Church Northfield School and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts now Northfield Mount Hermon School Moody Bible Institute and Moody Publishers. London: Vanity Fair, 1875. unknown
18-1342London: Vanity Fair 1885. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Good. Toning and some rubbing across image. Dated 15 Aug 1885. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Sir Edward Birkbeck 1st Baronet KCVO DL 11 October 1838 – 2 September 1908 was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. London: Vanity Fair, 1885. unknown
18-1329London: Vanity Fair 1886. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Good. Minor edge wear and quarter inch tear in left margin not affecting image. Dated 23 Jan 1886. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Frederic Harrison 18 October 1831 – 14 January 1923 was a British jurist and historian. Born at 17 Euston Square London he was the son of Frederick Harrison 1799-1881 a stockbroker and his wife Jane daughter of Alexander Brice a Belfast granite merchant. He was baptised at St. Pancras Church Euston and spent his early childhood at the northern London suburb of Muswell Hill to which the family moved soon after his birth. His father later acquired a lease on the grand Tudor manor house Sutton Place near Guildford Surrey in 1874 which descended to his elder son Sidney and about which Frederic jnr. wrote the definitive history Annals of an Old Manor House: Sutton Place Guildford first published in 1893. His paternal grandfather was a Leicestershire builder. In 1840 the family moved again to 22 Oxford Square Hyde Park London a house designed by Harrison's father. Along with his siblings Sidney and Lawrence Harrison received his initial education at home before attending a day school in St John's Wood. In 1843 he entered King's College School graduating as second in the school in 1849. London: Vanity Fair, 1886. unknown
18-1334London: Vanity Fair 1874. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Very Good. Some toning and spots in margin not affecting image. Dated 19 Dec 1874. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Sir Henry Irving 6 February 1838 – 13 October 1905 born John Henry Brodribb sometimes known as J. H. Irving was an English stage actor in the Victorian era known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility supervision of sets lighting direction casting as well as playing the leading roles for season after season at the Lyceum Theatre establishing himself and his company as representative of English classical theatre. In 1895 he became the first actor to be awarded a knighthood indicating full acceptance into the higher circles of British society. Irving is widely acknowledged to be one of the inspirations for Count Dracula the title character of the 1897 novel Dracula whose author Bram Stoker was business manager of the theatre. London: Vanity Fair, 1874. unknown
18-1296London: Vanity Fair 1875. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Good. Some toning foxing and stains and a vertical fold down the center. Letterpress clipping with biography of subject pasted on verso. Dated 17 Apr 1875. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Henry Cecil Raikes PC 18 November 1838 – 24 August 1891 was a British Conservative Party politician. He was Chairman of Ways and Means between 1874 and 1880 and served as Postmaster General between 1886 and 1891. London: Vanity Fair, 1875. unknown
18-1294London: Vanity Fair 1875. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Good. Some toning and foxing and a vertical fold down the center. Letterpress clipping with biography of subject pasted on verso. Dated 10 Apr 1875. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Ira David Sankey 1840–1908 known as The Sweet Singer of Methodism was an American gospel singer and composer associated with evangelist Dwight L. Moody. London: Vanity Fair, 1875. unknown
18-1312London: Vanity Fair 1888. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Very Good. Minor toning and foxing in margins not affecting image. Dated 8 Sep 1888. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.James Payn /peɪn/; 28 February 1830 – 25 March 1898 was an English novelist. Among the periodicals he edited were Chambers's Journal in Edinburgh and the Cornhill Magazine in London. London: Vanity Fair, 1888. unknown
18-1313London: Vanity Fair 1888. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Very Good. Minor toning and foxing in margins not affecting image. Fold on top right edge in margins. Dated 2 Jun 1888. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Joseph Henry Blackburne 10 December 1841 – 1 September 1924 nicknamed "The Black Death" dominated British chess during the latter part of the 19th century. He learned the game at the relatively late age of 18 but quickly became a strong player and went on to develop a professional chess career that spanned over 50 years. At one point he was the world's second most successful player with a string of tournament victories behind him and popularised chess by giving simultaneous and blindfold displays around the country. Blackburne also published a collection of his own games. London: Vanity Fair, 1888. unknown
18-1337London: Vanity Fair 1885. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Very Good. Minor toning and wrinkling in margins not affecting image. Dated 17 Oct 1885. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.John Passmore Edwards 24 March 1823 – 22 April 191112 was a British journalist newspaper owner and philanthropist. The son of a carpenter he was born in Blackwater a small village between Redruth and Truro in Cornwall England. London: Vanity Fair, 1885. unknown
18-1315London: Vanity Fair 1887. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Very Good. Some wear to top edge and toning in margins not affecting image. Dated 22 Oct 1887. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Sir Thomas Sutherland GCMG Chinese: 蘇石蘭 16 August 1834 – 1 January 1922 was a British banker and politician initially elected to represent the Liberal Party and then as a Liberal Unionist. He founded The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation which was the founder member of HSBC Group and directed the P&O Company. Sutherland got his start clerking in the London office of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company P&O. Soon after P&O promoted Sutherland to superintendent assigning him to British Hong Kong to manage the firm's Asian operation. In 1863 he became the first chairman of the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock. In order to help finance the burgeoning trade between China and Europe and explore the potential for China--United States trade Sutherland established The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in 1865 and became its first vice-chairman. He was appointed member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1865 to 1866. In 1872 he was appointed Managing Director of P & O. In November 1884 Sutherland was elected at a by-election as the Member of Parliament MP for Greenock. A Liberal he was re-elected in 1885 but when the Liberals split over Irish Home Rule he joined the breakaway Liberal Unionist Party. He was re-elected as a Liberal Unionist in 1886 but lost the seat at the 1892 general election. However he was reinstated when his opponent was unseated on petition and held the seat until he stood down at the 1900 general election. In 1880 Sutherland married Alice Macnaught. She was the daughter of Rev. John Macnaught of Holy Trinity Church Conduit Street London England. Sutherland and his wife had two sons and a daughter Helen Sutherland 1881–1965 known as an art patron; one of the sons Eric Macnaught Sutherland died in the Second Boer War the other son died during World War I. In 1920 Sutherland's wife Alice died. In 1922 Sutherland died in London England. Sutherland Street in Sheung Wan Hong Kong was named after him. London: Vanity Fair, 1887. unknown
18-1340London: Vanity Fair 1885. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Very Good. Minor foxing and wrinkling in margins not affecting image. Dated 2 May 1885. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce. London: Vanity Fair, 1885. unknown
18-1336London: Vanity Fair 1885. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Very Good. Some toning and wrinkling in margin not affecting image. Dated 3 Oct 1885. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Sir William Henry Houldsworth 1st Baronet 20 August 1834 in Ardwick Manchester – 18 April 1917 in Kilmarnock was a mill-owner in Reddish Lancashire. He was Conservative MP for Manchester North West from 1883 to 1906 and sometime chairman of the Fine Cotton Spinners' Association. He was made a baronet in 1887. London: Vanity Fair, 1885. unknown
18-1346London: Vanity Fair 1885. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Good. Foxing and wrinkling in margins and one-inch tear in top edge not affecting image. Dated 31 Jan 1885. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 17 August 1840 – 10 September 1922 sometimes spelled "Wilfred" was an English poet and writer. He and his wife Lady Anne Blunt travelled in the Middle East and were instrumental in preserving the Arabian horse bloodlines through their farm the Crabbet Arabian Stud. He was best known for his poetry which was published in a collected edition in 1914 but also wrote a number of political essays and polemics. Blunt is also known for his views against imperialism viewed as relatively enlightened for his time. London: Vanity Fair, 1885. unknown
18-1306London: Vanity Fair 1874. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Good. Some toning and foxing and a vertical crease down the center. Letterpress clipping with biography of subject pasted on verso. Dated 15 Aug 1874. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Sir Arthur Helps KCB Hon DCL 10 July 1813 – 7 March 1875 was an English writer and dean of the Privy Council. He was a Cambridge Apostle. The youngest son of London merchant Thomas Helps Arthur Helps was born in Streatham in South London. He was educated at Eton and at Trinity College Cambridge coming out thirty-first wrangler in the mathematical tripos in 1835. He was recognized by the ablest of his contemporaries there as a man of superior gifts and likely to make his mark in later life. As a member of the "Conversazione Society" better known as the Cambridge Apostles a society established in 1820 for the purposes of discussion on social and literary questions by a few young men attracted to each other by a common taste for literature and speculation he was associated with Charles Buller Frederick Maurice Richard Chenevix Trench Monckton Milnes Arthur Hallam and Alfred Tennyson. London: Vanity Fair, 1874. unknown
71-1040London: Vanity Fair 1874. Chromolithograph. 30.7 x 18.5 cm. image. 39.8 x 25.8 cm. sheet. Dated 17 January 1874. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lithographers. Very Good. Light toning along sheet edges missing upper left and right sheet corners.Sir Antonio Genesio Maria Panizzi better known as Anthony Panizzi was a naturalised British citizen of Italian birth and an Italian patriot. He was a librarian becoming the Principal Librarian of the British Museum from 1856 to 1866. London: Vanity Fair, 1874. unknown
18-1343London: Vanity Fair 1885. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Good. Foxing along top edge minor loss on top left corner and half inch tear in bottom edge not affecting image. Dated 27 Jun 1885. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Sir Frederick George Milner 7th Baronet GCVO PC 7 November 1849 – 8 June 1931 was a British Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1883 to 1885 from 1890 to 1906. Educated at Eton and Christ Church Oxford he was elected as one of the two Members of Parliament MPs for York at a by-election in 1883 but was defeated at the 1885 general election. London: Vanity Fair, 1885. unknown
18-1301London: Vanity Fair 1875. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Good. Some toning foxing and stains and a vertical fold down the center. Letterpress clipping with biography of subject pasted on verso. Dated 24 Apr 1875. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Sir George Samuel Jenkinson 11th Baronet 27 September 1817 – 19 January 1892 was a British Conservative politician. Jenkinson was the son of the Right Reverend John Jenkinson Bishop of St David's and Frances Augusta daughter of Augustus Pechell. Prime Minister Robert Jenkinson 2nd Earl of Liverpool was his first cousin once removed. In 1855 he succeeded his uncle as eleventh Baronet. He died in Eastwood House Falfield on 19 January 1892 and was buried in a vault in St George's Church Falfield. London: Vanity Fair, 1875. unknown
18-1304London: Vanity Fair 1874. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Good. Some toning foxing and creases and a vertical fold down the center. Letterpress clipping with biography of subject pasted on verso. Dated 5 Sep 1874. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Sir Henry Drummond Charles Wolff GCB GCMG PC 1830 – 11 October 1908 known as Henry Drummond Wolff or H. Drummond Wolff was an English diplomat and Conservative Party politician who started as a clerk in the Foreign Office. Wolff was the son of Georgiana Mary née Walpole and Joseph Wolff. His father was a missionary who had been born Jewish and his mother a descendant of Prime Minister Robert Walpole. Wolff was educated at Rugby School. London: Vanity Fair, 1874. unknown
18-1310London: Vanity Fair 1875. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Good. Some toning foxing and stains and a half inch tear at bottom edge. Letterpress clipping with biography of subject pasted on verso. Dated 1 Aug 1875. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Sir Henry Thompson 1st Baronet FRCS 6 August 1820 – 18 April 1904 was a British surgeon and polymath. Thompson was born at Framlingham Suffolk. His father wished him to enter business but he was eventually by 1848 able to enroll in the Medical School of University College London. He obtained his medical degree in 1851 with the highest honours in anatomy and surgery. In 1853 he was appointed assistant surgeon at University College Hospital becoming full surgeon in 1863 professor of clinical surgery in 1866 and consulting surgeon in 1874. In 1884 he became professor of surgery and pathology in the Royal College of Surgeons. Specializing in surgery of the genito-urinary tract and in particular in that of the bladder he studied in Paris under Jean Civiale who in the first quarter of the 19th century had developed a procedure to crush a stone within the human bladder and who had invented an instrument for this minimally invasive surgery. After his return from Paris Thompson soon acquired a reputation. In 1863 when King Leopold I of Belgium was suffering from kidney stones Thompson was called to Brussels to consult in the case and after some difficulties was allowed to perform the operation of lithotripsy. It was successful and in recognition of his skill Thompson was appointed surgeon-extraordinary to the King an appointment which was continued by Léopold II. Nearly ten years later Thompson carried out a similar operation on the former Emperor Napoléon III; however the Emperor died four days after not from the surgical procedure as was proved by the post-mortem examination but from uremia. In 1874 Thompson helped in founding the Cremation Society of Great Britain of which he was the first president; he also did much toward the removal of the legal restrictions on cremation. He denounced the prevailing methods of death certification in Great Britain; and in 1892 a select committee was appointed to inquire into the matter; its report published the following year was generally in line with his thinking. Woking Crematorium finally became the first of its kind in the UK. Thompson's last public duty for the society in 1903 was to open Birmingham Crematorium the country's ninth. He died in April 1904; his body was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium the first in London which he had opened in 1902 London: Vanity Fair, 1875. unknown
18-1309London: Vanity Fair 1874. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Good. Some toning and foxing and a vertical crease down the center. Letterpress clipping with biography of subject pasted on verso. Dated 26 Sept 1874. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Sir James Hudson GCB 1810 – 20 September 1885 was a British diplomat. He is noted for his time as British ambassador to Turin between 1852 and 1863 as an italophile and strong supporter of Italian unification and a collector of Italian art. London: Vanity Fair, 1874. unknown
71-1034London: Vanity Fair 1880. Chromolithograph. 31 x 18.5 cm. image. 40 x 26.5 cm. sheet. Dated 16 October 1880. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lithographers. Very Good. Light toning along sheet edges.Sir John George Tollemache Sinclair 3rd Baronet was a Scottish landowner and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1869 to 1885. London: Vanity Fair, 1880. unknown
18-1322London: Vanity Fair 1887. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Very Good. Minor toning in margins and wear on edges not affecting image. Dated 14 May 1887. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Sir James Porter Corry 1st Baronet 8 September 1826 – 28 November 1891 was an Irish politician. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament MP from 1874 to 1885 and an Irish Unionist Alliance MP from 1886 until his death. Sir James was the son of Robert Corry of Turnagardy Newtownards Co. Down a quarry owner and Belfast timber merchant. Educated at the Royal Belfast Academic Institution he entered the family timber firm which was at that time occupied with building the growing industrial port of Belfast. He was first elected to Parliament for the Irish constituency of Belfast in the 1874 general election. The constituency was abolished for the 1885 general election. On 15 September 1885 he was created a baronet of Dunraven Antrim. On 1 February 1886 he became the MP for Mid Armagh in a by-election following the death of John McKane. In July 1886 he joined the Irish Unionist Alliance and stood for subsequent elections for this party. He died in office in 1891 at his home Dunraven on Belfast's Malone Road and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son William. London: Vanity Fair, 1887. unknown
