+Born 1842.+
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.
[Illustration: AGE 22.
_From a Photo. by Mayland, Cambridge._]
For the above photographs we are indebted to the kindness of Sir
Richard Webster.
[Illustration:
_From a Photo. by_ +PRESENT DAY.+
_Hughes & Mullins, Ryde._]
[Illustration:
_From a_ +AGE 6.+
_Daguerreotype._]
[Illustration:
_From a_ +AGE 24.+
_Photograph._]
[Illustration:
_From a_ +AGE 18.+
_Photograph._]
[Illustration:
_From a Photo. by_ +PRESENT DAY.+
_Alfred Ellis._]