+Born 1833.+
At the age of nineteen Mr. Bradlaugh, after having been successively
errand-boy, coal-dealer, Sunday-school teacher, and lecturer, had
enlisted in the 7th Dragoon Guards, and had served for a time in
Ireland. He then became orderly-room clerk, obtained his discharge,
and took a situation as clerk to a solicitor in London. Soon, however,
he began to write and lecture, and before the age at which our
second portrait shows him, he was known throughout the country for
the opinions which it was the business of his life to advocate. And
erroneous as many of those opinions doubtless were, and fierce as was
the opposition which they excited, no one would now venture to dispute
his earnestness, his remarkable ability, or the goodness of his heart.
[Illustration:
_From a Photo. by_ +AGE 38.+
_Van Loo._]
[Illustration:
_From a Photo. by_ +AGE 57.+
_Messrs. Elliott & Fry._]
[Illustration:
_From a Photo. by_ +AGE 3.+
_Samuel A. Walker._]
[Illustration:
_From a Photo. by_ +AGE 28.+
_Bertin, Brighton._]