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PORTRAITS OF CELEBRITIES.
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SIR RICHARD EVERARD WEBSTER.

Born 1842.

AGE 17.
From a Photo. by Mautl & Co.
AGE 32.
From a Photo. by Hills & Saunders.
AGE 22.
From a Photo. by Mayland, Cambridge.
PRESENT DAY.
From a Photo. by Hughes & Mullins, Ryde.

SIR RICHARD WEBSTER at seventeen, the age of our first portrait, was leaving the Charterhouse School for Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was greatly distinguished as an athlete, and where he won the two miles race against Oxford. Our second portrait shows him at this period, in his running costume. At thirty-two, as in our third portrait, he had already so distinguished himself at the Bar that two years later he was made a Q.C., at the earliest age on record. The brilliance of Sir Richard's subsequent career is well known. It may interest our readers to be told that some portraits, at a country house, of Sir Richard at various stages of his life, first suggested to the Editor the notion of this series, which has proved so popular.

For the above photographs we are indebted to the kindness of Sir Richard Webster.