Forty years of 'Spy'

CHAPTER XVII

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A HOLIDAY MISFORTUNE--ROYAL PORTRAITS--FAREWELL

Belgium.--Accident at Golf.--Portraits of King George V, the Duke of Connaught, Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Garvin.--Portrait painting of to-day.--Final reflections. --Farewell. 332

ILLUSTRATIONS

IN COLOUR

PAGE

Mr. Charles Cox (Banker), 1881 47

The Marquis of Winchester, 1904 61

Sir Alfred Scott-Gatty (Garter King-at-Arms, 1905) 71

Lord Haldon, 1882 138

Admiral Sir Compton Domville, 1906 160

Miss Christabel Pankhurst 160

F. R Spofforth (Demon Bowler), 1878 232

Mr. Gladstone, 1887 239

Sir Albert Rollit, 1886 248

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Temple, 1902 324

The Marquis of Salisbury, 1902 326

IN HALF-TONE

Leslie Ward _Frontispiece_

James Ward, R.A. 2

James Ward's Mother 2

Miniature of my sister Alice and myself painted by Sir William Ross, R.A. 12

My Father 14

My Mother 14

Cartoons from _Punch_, 1865 22

Sir William Broadbent, 1902 31

Sir Thomas Barlow, 1903 31

Sir James Paget, Bart., 1876 31

Gainsborough's Tomb at Kew Churchyard and Tablet to his Memory Inside Church 35

My Brother, Wriothesley Russell, 1872 37

My Sister, Beatrice, 1874 37

Bust of my Brother, Wriothesley Russell, 1867 39

My Daughter Sylvia 39

John Everett Millais, R.A., 1874 55

C. R. Leslie, R.A. (my Godfather) 55

Lord Houghton, 1882 66

Fred Archer, 1881 66

The Duke of Beaufort, _cir._ 1895 66

First Lord Lytton (Bulwer Lytton), 1869 77

Mr. George Lane Fox, 1878 83

Lord Portman, 1898 83

Duke of Grafton, 1886 83

Sir William Jaffray, Bart. 88

Sir William Crookes, 1903 93

Sir Oliver Lodge, 1904 93

Sir William Huggins, 1903 93

Professor Owen, 1873 93

Thomas Gibson Bowles, 1905 94

Colonel Hall Walker, 1906 94

Colonel Fred Burnaby, 1876 94

Pellegrini Asleep, etc., cir. 1889 99

John Tenniel, 1878 105

Anthony Trollope, 1873 105

Sir Francis Doyle, Bart., 1877 105

"Miles Bugglebury," 1867 108

J. Redmond, M.P., 1904 113

The Speaker (J. W. Lowther, M.P.), 1906 113

Bonar Law, M.P., 1905 113

Henry Kemble, 1907 119

H. Beerbohm Tree, 1890 119

Gerald du Maurier, 1907 119

William Gillette, 1907 119

Fifth Earl of Portsmouth, 1876 123

Major Oswald Ames (Ozzie), 1896 123

Earl of Lonsdale, 1879 123

The Rev. R. J. Campbell, 1904 127

Sterling Stuart, 1904 127

Father Bernard Vaughan, 1907 127

Canon Liddon, 1876 133

Cardinal Newman, 1877 133

The Dean of Windsor (Wellesley), 1876 133

Dr. Jowett, 1876 135

Dr. Spooner, 1898 135

Professor Robinson Ellis, 1894 135

Buckstone, and other Sketches 140

Mrs. George Rigby Murray 144

A Study 144

The Hon. Mrs. Adrian Pollock 144

A Midsummer-Night's Dream 151

Grand Prix 151

The Beefsteak Club 164

George Grossmith and Corney Grain, 1888 179

C. Birch Crisp, 1911 187

Oliver Locker Lampson, M.P., 1911 187

Weedon Grossmith, 1905 187

The Forty Thieves: programme and photographs 189

Johnny Giffard; Alfred Thompson; Corney Grain; "Tom" Bird; Corney Grain at Datchet; Pellegrini 191

Augustus Helder, M.P.; Madame Rachel; Lord Ranelagh; Beal, M.P.; Barnum; First Lord Cowley; Sir H. Cozens-Hardy; The Dean of Christchurch; Sir Roderick Murcheson 199

Lord Coleridge, 1870 211

Mr. Justice Cozens-Hardy, 1893 211

H. C. Biron, 1907 211

E. S. Fordham, 1908 211

Charles Williams-Wynn, M.P., 1879 215

Sir James Ingham, 1886 215

Lord Vivian (Hook and Eye), 1876 215

Sir Albert de Rutzen, 1909 217

Mr. Plowden, 1910 217

Canon Ainger, 1892 222

16th Marquis of Winchester, 1904 222

Archdeacon Wilberforce, 1909 222

Rev. J. L. Joynes, 1887 225

Dr. Warre Cornish, 1901 225

Dr. Goodford, 1876 225

Rev. R. J. Campbell, 1904 231

Sam Loates, 1896 234

Arthur Coventry, 1881 234

Frank Wootton, 1909 234

Fordham, 1882 234

"Dizzy" and "Monty" Corry (Lord Rowton), 1880 241

Campbell-Bannerman and Fowler, 1892 247

Gladstone and Harcourt, 1892 247

Lords Spencer and Ripon, 1892 247

The Fourth Party, 1881 251

Baron Deichmann, 1903 253

W. Bramston Beach, M.P., 1895 253

"Sam" Smith, M.P., 1904 253

Percy Thornton, M.P., 1900 253

Seventh Earl of Bessborough, 1888 261

Rev. F. H. Gillingham, 1906 261

Archdeacon Benjamin Harrison, 1885 261

"Charlie" Beresford, 1876 268

Admiral Sir John Fisher, 1902 268

Admiral Sir Regd. Macdonald, 1880 268

Captain Jellicoe, 1906 268

King Edward VII, 1902 270

Sir John Astley 276

"Jim" Lowther, M.P., 1877 276

Peter Gilpin, 1908 276

Earl of Macclesfield, 1881 276

Chinese Ambassador (Kuo Sung Tuo), 1877 280

Ras Makonnen, 1903 280

Chinese Ambassador (Chang Ta Jen), 1903 280

Richard Wagner, 1877 285

The Abbe Liszt, 1886 285

Kubelik, 1903 286

Sir Frederick Bridge, 1904 286

Paderewski, 1899 286

Sir Edgar Boehm, Bart., R.A., 1884; and the brass on Sir Edgar Boehm's Tomb 290

Sir Henry Lucy, 1909 292

W. S. Gilbert, 1881 292

W. E. Henley, 1892 292

Rudyard Kipling, 1894 292

From Nursery Rhyme Sketches; Rt. Hon. "Bobby" Low; Mr. Justice Lawrence; Danckwerts, K.C.; the late Lord Chief Justice Cockburn; a Smile from Nature; Henry Irving 297

Lord Newlands, 1909 306

Count de Soveral, 1898 306

M. Gennadius, 1888 306

General Sir H. Smith Dorrien, 1911 313

Lord Roberts, 1900 313

Lord Kitchener, 1899 313

Lloyd George, 1911 318

Asquith, 1904 318

Rufus Isaacs, 1904 318

My Daughter 322

My Wife 322

Joseph Knight, and a facsimile letter 326

Princess Ena of Battenberg, 1906 330

Sketches drawn in September, 1899, by Mr. A. G. Witherby 332

M. P. Grace, Esq., Battle Abbey 340

IN LINE

Cruikshank's Autograph 86

Facsimile of a Whistler letter 299

"Smile, damn you, smile!" 334

FORTY YEARS OF 'SPY'