+Born 1815.+
At the age of thirty-seven, as our first portrait shows him, Earl
Granville, who had succeeded to the peerage six years earlier, and
who had already been for four years Vice-President of the Board of
Trade, had just obtained a seat in the Cabinet, and succeeded Lord
Palmerston at the Foreign Office. Since that time Lord Granville
has filled almost every office of importance in successive Liberal
Governments. He was moreover, as everybody knows, one of Her Majesty's
most confidential friends and counsellors. No Royal ceremony, whether
a marriage, a christening, or a funeral, was complete without his
well-known dignified, yet genial presence; and he probably attended
more ceremonies of this kind, at different Courts of Europe, than any
other person of his time.
Earl Granville's recent lamented death gives the above portraits a
melancholy interest.
[Illustration:
_From a Painting_ +AGE 17.+
_by G. F. Watts._]
[Illustration:
_From a_ +AGE 21.+
_Painting._]
[Illustration:
_From a Photo. by_ +AGE 47.+
_Mrs. Cameron._]
[Illustration:
_From a Photo. by_ +AGE 68.+
_Messrs. Cameron & Smith._]