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# Men-at-the-Bar/Williamson, John William, jun.

​Williamson, John William, jun., equity draftsman and conveyancer, a student of the Middle Temple 12 Nov., 1866, called to the bar 7 June, 1869 (eldest son of John William Williamson, of the Middle Temple, bar.-at-law); born , .
    4, Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, W.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Williams, William Ellis Hume

​Williams, William Ellis Hume, B.A., LL.B., Trin. Hall, Camb., 1880, a student of the Middle Temple 21 Nov., 1878, called to the bar 29 June, 1881 (only son of Joseph William Hume Williams, bar.-at-law); born .
    4, Elm Court, or 1, Plowden Buildings, Temple, E.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Williams-Wynn, Arthur Watkin

​Williams-Wynn, Arthur Watkin, B.A., Christ Church, Oxon, 1879, from Westminster School, capt Montgomeryshire yeomanry cavalry, a student of the Inner Temple 16 Nov., 1878 (then aged 22), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1882 (eldest son of Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn, of Coed-y-maen, co. Montgomery, late M.P.); born 2 June, 1856 (see Foster's Baronetage).
    2, Lower Berkeley Street, Portman Square, W.; 9, King's Bench Walk, Temple, E.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Williams-Wynn, Charles Watkin

​Williams-Wynn, Charles Watkin, recorder of Oswestry since April, 1880, M.P. Montgomeryshire 1862–80, J.P., D.L. Montgomeryshire, chairman of Lands Improvement Company, lieut.-col. Montgomery yeomanry cavalry since 1877, M.A., Christ Church, Oxon, 1846, student 1839, from Westminster School, a student of Lincoln's Inn 6 April, 1843 (then aged 20), called to the bar 6 May, 1846 (only son of Rt. Hon. Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn, M.P., and a bencher of Lincoln's Inn); born 4 Oct., 1822; married 18 Aug., 1853, Lady Annora Charlotte Pierrepont, youngest dau. of Charles Herbert, 2nd Earl Manvers, and has issue (see Foster's Baronetage).
    Coed-y-maen, Welshpool, Montgomeryshire; 2, Lower Berkeley Street, Portman Square, W.; Carlton and Travellers' Clubs, S.W.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Williamson, John William

​Williamson, John William, a student of the Inner Temple 23 May, 1838 (then aged 19), went to the Middle Temple 13 May, 1841, where he was called to the bar 19 Nov., 1841 (eldest son of John Wilkins Williamson, Esq., of Hastings); born , 1819.
    24, Warwick Road, Maida Hill West, W.; 4, Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, W.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/de Ricci, Robert Scipio

​de Ricci, Robert Scipio, a member of the Western circuit, matric. Dublin Univ., a student of Lincoln's Inn 29 Dec., 1871 (then aged 21), called to the bar 29 June, 1881 (2nd son of Hermann Robert de Ricci, Esq., of Dublin); born , 1850.
    3, Elm Court, Temple, E.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/de Wet, Sir Jacobus Petrus

​de Wet, Sir Jacobus Petrus, B.A. London Univ. 1860, knighted 19 July, 1883, acting chief justice Ceylon 1882-3, member of Legislative Council Cape of Good Hope 1864-73, solicitor-general 1873-8, acting puisne judge supreme court 1878, recorder Griqualand West 1878-80 and acting administrator 1879-80, chief justice Transvaal 1881, etc., a student of the Inner Temple 21 Jan., 1859 (then aged 20), called to the bar 6 June, 1863 (eldest son of J. C. de Wet, of the Cape civil service); born , 1839; married 26 Nov., 1868, Pauline Harriette, dau. of William Trevor Law, Esq., of Rangoon and Moulmein; she died , (see Foster's Our Noble and Gentle Families).
    Colonial Office.
# Men I Have Painted

with 48 portraits. "Here is indeed revealed the man and his manner and his method and the character of a great period in modern life as is set out by human beings who find in this singularly human being, Hamilton, the painter, a true interpreter of manners and of men."—H. M. W. (Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 45. 1921).
​MEN I HAVE PAINTED
GEORGE HAMILTON (By Onslow Ford)
MEN I HAVE PAINTED By J. McLure Hamilton With a Foreword by MRS. DREW
WITH 48 PORTRAITS
T. FISHER UNWIN LTD LONDON: ADELPHI TERRACE
First published in 1921
(All rights reserved)
GEORGE HALL HAMILTON
| CONTENTS |
| | Page |
| MY FATHER | 17 |
| THE KING | 23 |
| THE KING'S HORSES | 31 |
| MR. GLADSTONE | 41 |
| BISMARCK | 63 |
| MR. ASQUITH | 73 |
| MRS. ASQUITH | 77 |
| ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR | 79 |
| CARDINAL MANNING | 89 |
| JOHN TYNDALL | 91 |
| HERBERT SPENCER | 101 |
| LORD LEIGHTON | 109 |
| GEORGE MEREDITH | 118 |
| ALFRED GILBERT | 123 |
| ONSLOW FORD | 127 |
| HENRY THOURON | 131 |
| RICHARD VAUX | 137 |
| EDWARD MANDELL HOUSE | 141 |
| COSMO MONKHOUSE | 145 |
| HENRI ROCHEFORT | 149 |
| GENERAL BOOTH | 153 |
| THE PUBLISHER | 163 ​ |
| JOSEPH PENNELL | 169 |
| EDWARD H. COATES | 177 |
| DR. WEIR MITCHELL | 181 |
| DR. JOHN MADISON TAYLOR | 185 |
| LORD HALSBURY | 189 |
| CHARLES MARQUEDANT BURNS | 199 |
| GEORGE F. WATTS | 203 |
| JUDGE ALEXANDER SIMPSON | 205 |
| JUDGE WILLIAM W. PORTER | 209 |
| THE REV. STEPHEN GLADSTONE | 215 |
| HENRY E. GLADSTONE | 217 |
| WILLIAM G. C. GLADSTONE | 219 |
| CANON ARMOUR | 221 |
| EDWARD CLIFFORD | 225 |
| DAVID CROAL THOMSON | 227 |
| LORD ARMISTEAD | 233 |
| CYRUS K. CURTIS | 237 |
| CHARLES LUDINGTON | 239 |
| LORD HALIFAX | 241 |
| WALTER TYNDALE | 243 |
| JOHN MALCOLM SWAN | 249 |
| SIR ARCHIBALD GEIKIE | 253 |
| SIR HENRY IRVING | 255 |
| THE PORTRAIT I DID NOT PAINT | 259 |
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# Men I Have Painted/Cardinal Manning

CARDINAL MANNING
CARDINAL MANNING
I SUCCEEDED in obtaining a drawing in pastel of Cardinal Manning which I was induced to part with to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, to my great regret, and which I have offered to repurchase.
The Cardinal was one of my best and most amiable sitters. While I worked, he read his breviary, or chatted with me upon many of the social and economic topics of the day. How futile such discussions are can only be realized after a lapse of twenty years, when changes have taken place that alter radically one's conception of details—the underlying principles only remaining unchanged.
Cardinal Manning was a tall, picturesque ecclesiastic, very careless in dress, with an exceedingly small face but a wide and prominent forehead. On one occasion when he was lecturing, he told me, a man up in the gallery, looking down upon him, and seeing his face foreshortened, called out in a voice that he and all could hear, "Why, he has no face; he's all forehead!"
"The only time a man should look in a mirror is when he is shaving," the Cardinal continued; and I thought to myself that, in his case, to avoid the sin of vanity, he considered once a week sufficient. He did not look on the reverse of the picture; for some people suffer agonies of remorse and self-abasement when they look into mirrors.
The Cardinal did not consider sitting for a portrait so ​vain an act as looking into a mirror. He consented to be painted with great goodwill, and enlivened the hours by anecdotes of paintings and painters. There were three kinds of portrait painters, he thought—those who paint you as they think they see you, those who paint you as they think they ought to see you, and those who paint you as you are. He had given sittings to George F. Watts, who belonged to the second class, and who had painted him "as he thought he ought to do."
# Men I Have Painted/Charles Ludington

CHARLES LUDINGTON
CHARLES LUDINGTON
MANY years ago, at Costa Lupara, in Alassio, I made a drawing of the young daughter of one of the visitors. Her expression seemed at the same time to penetrate the future, to recall the past, and to contemplate herself with a pathetic sadness. The look revealed itself in the drawing, if anything, more intensely than it did in the girl herself.
A stupid maid, with a dust-brush, whisked out the sketch, and it never could be retrieved.
When I went up to Mount Desert Island, on the coast of Maine, to paint Mr. Ludington, I now and then caught an expression in his face that was unlike that of other men, and I instantly decided that the portrait would not be successful unless this personal look could be obtained. Mr. Ludington had other expressions, more in harmony with everyday events, any one of which might have been delineated with much more certainty and security than this fleeting vision of an inner life.
After enjoying a few gay and happy days in the seaside village, full of young people bent upon sport and merriment, I settled down to work. First making a careful drawing, I began to paint. The work went on almost mechanically for a few hours, when Mrs. Ludington came in and sat down in front of the canvas, on which now was an almost finished head. After a minute or two of silence, she said, "I wonder if you know what you have here?"
​For the first time I rose from my chair, to stand off and see from a distance what had been done. To my great delight, the look I wanted had come into the face. It had come unbidden, unsought, without any effort of mine to produce it.
Through long years of experience I have learned to believe that a perfect sitter is nearly a perfect man. It is a test of many qualities, of which goodwill is not the least, and patience and endurance not the best. When I have measured great men by this high standard, it is surprising how really few have been found wanting. But there have been some so disregardful of goodwill that they can only be considered as selfish churls.
Of all the men I have painted, that one whose motto should be suaviter in modo, fortiter in re is Charles Ludington. No one has ever seemed to be just as uniformly gentle or so relentlessly firm as he.
When generous and kindly acts are performed with grace and charm, even a higher feeling than gratitude inspires and elevates the mind. When I recall the great taste displayed by Mr. Ludington in the selection of some fine specimens of old Chinese portraits for the decoration of the panels in his room in the Curtis Building, then the secret link that binds men together in common sympathies begins to reveal itself.
# Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison/Proclamation Concerning rights of setlers at Peoria

Proclamation: Rights of Settlers at Peoria
April 8, 1802
The Citizens of the Village of Peoria on the Illinois River having presented a petition to the Governor, stating that a considerable quantity of wood and prairie land adjoining the said Village, from whence they have been accustomed to procure hay and fuel, had been granted by a Certain Mallier [Paulette Maillet] who stiled himself Commandant of Peoria to a number of Individuals by whom the said Citizens have been forbidden to Cut Wood, or Hay as usual, to their great Inconvenience and Injury; The Governor Issued a proclamation publicly notifying, that all the land included within a Square of six miles [Ceded by Indians in Wayne's treaty, 1795] round the said Village is the property of the United States, that the said Mallier nor no other persons have ever been authorized by the United States to dispose of the land, and that the sales, and Concessions made by him are Fraudulent and Void; And as the only agent of the United States in this Territory, he gave to the Citizens of the said Village permission to Cut wood and Hay upon any of the Public lands, which are not Enclosed or have not been yearly Enclosed, at the same time he expressly forbids any new settlement, plantation or farm to be made upon any part of the said six miles square, until it shall be authorized by the Government of the United States.
# Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison/Proclamation Selling liquor to Indians in and around Vincennes

Proclamation: Forbidding Traders from Selling Liquor to Indians in and around Vincennes
July 20, 1801
Executive Journal, 4
This day the Governor Issued a proclamation expressly forbidding any Trader from selling or giving any Spirituous Liquors to any Indian or Indians in the Town of Vincennes and ordering that the Traders in future when the sold Liquor to the Indians should deliver it to them at the distance of at least a mile from the village or on the other side of the Wabash River. And Whereas certain evil disposed persons have made a practice of purchasing from the Indians (and giveing them Whiskey in exchange) articles of Cloathing, Cooking, and such other articles as are used in hunting, viz; Guns powder, Ball &c. he has thought proper to publish an Extract from the Laws of the United States, that the persons offending against the Law may know the penalties to which they are subject, he also extorts [exhorts] and requires all Magistrates and other Civil officers vigilantly to discharge their duties, by punishing, as the Law directs, all persons who are found drunk, or rioting in the streets or public houses; and requests and advises, the good Citizens of the Territory to aid and assist the Magistrates, in the execution of the Laws by Lodgeing information against, and by assisting to apprehend the disorderly and rioutuos persons, who constantly infest the streets of Vincennes and to inform against all those who violate the Sabbath by selling or Bartering Spirituous Liquors or who pursue any other unlawful business on the day set apart for the service of God. [Abstract]
# Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison/Proclamation calling a convention to petition congress to allow slavery in Indiana territory

Proclamation: Calling a Convention to Petition Congress TO Allow Slavery in Indiana Territory
November 22, 1802
Petitions having been presented to the Governor by a Considerable number of the Citizens of the Territory praying that a proclamation should Issue from the Executive authority for Calling a General Convention for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of repealing the sixth article ​of Compact between the United States and the people of the Territory, and for other purposes, and proof having been adduced to the governor that a very large majority of the Citizens are in favor of the measures: the Governor in Compliance with their wishes Issued his proclamation notifying all whom it may concern that an Election will be held at the Respective Court Houses in Each County of the Territory on Tuesday the 11th. day of December for Choosing representatives to a General Convention, and the number of Representatives from the several Counties to be as follows Viz. from the County of Knox four, from the County of Randolph three, from the County of St. Clair three, and from the County of Clark two, and the Sheriffs of the several Counties are authorized and required to hold the Elections in their Respective Counties, and in Case of any of the Sheriffs are Candidates, then the election to be held by the Coroners.
# Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison/Proclamation Offering a reward for apprehending a jail breaker

Proclamation: Offering a Reward for a Jail Breaker
May 5, 1802
The Sheriff of Knox County having reported to the Governor that a Certain John Williams, confined in the jail of the said County, on the Charge of murder, did on the night of the 4th. Instant [May] Break the Jail, and from thence Effected his Escape, the Governor Issued a proclamation ​ offering a Reward of three hundred Dollars, to any person or persons, who should apprehend the said Williams, and deliver him to the Custody of the Sheriff of said County, he also in the same proclamation Charges and requires all Sheriffs, Constables, and other Civil officers of the Territory to make diligent search for the said Culprit; and he requests the good Citizens of the Territory to give all the assistance in their power towards apprehending him, and as there is great reason to believe the said Williams was assisted by some Villian or Villians in making his Escape, the Governor offers a further reward of one hundred dollars, to any person or persons who will give information of any accomplice or accomplices of the said Williams in Breaking the Jail so that the offenders may be prosecuted with effect.
# Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison/Proclamation Sale of liquor to Indians

Proclamation: Selling Liquor to Indians
October 24, 1802
The Congress of the United States having by the act of the 30th March, 1802, authorized the President of the United States to take such measures as he may deem Expedient for preventing the Introduction of ardent Spirits amongst the ​Indian Tribes, and the Governor of the Territory having received Instructions and authority from the President to suppress the sale of ardent Spirits to the Indians within the Territory, The Governor Issued his proclamation strictly Enjoining upon all traders and other persons, to forbear in future to sell any ardent spirits or Intoxicating Liquors to any Indian or Indians whatever; Such Traders as may heretofore [have] taken Liquors into the Indian Country are allowed to remove the same after which period it shall be considered as an Infraction of the Regulations for the Government of the Indian Department, if any such ardent spirits are found in their possession and their Bonds will be forfeited accordingly.
# Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison/Proclamation against trading with the Indians

Proclamation: Against Trading with the Indians
August 31, 1801
Executive Journal, 4
Frequent complaints having been made to the Governor by the Indians of the great mischiefs which have arisen from the Traders frequenting their Hunting Camps, the Governor Issued a proclamation notifying them that a regulation has been made by the Executive of the United States which declares that all persons who receive Licenses to trade with the Indians should confine themselves to the Towns and not follow the Indians to their Hunting grounds and that in future the said regulation would be strictly Enforced, and requireing all concerned to govern themselves accordingly; and whereas he had received undoubted information that a number of persons who were now trading in the Indian Country without Licences in Contempt of the Laws and authority of the United States he in the same proclamation Charged and required all officers Civil and Military Legally authorized to apprehend the persons and seize the goods of all such offenders, to the end that they may be dealt with according to Law. [Abstract]
# Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison/Proclamation Concerning the courts in Clark county

Proclamation: Concerning the Courts in Clark County
June 22, 1801
Executive Journal, 4
The Governor issued a proclamation for the continuing of the Courts at Springville in Clark county until a permanent seat of Justice for said county is fixed on.[Abstract]
* ↑ Springville was located on donations 94 and 115, Clark's Grant, about two miles west of Charlestown. There seems to have been a trading post there in the eighteenth century. The town site was plotted in 1800. The home of Jonathan Jennings was nearby. It was a thriving little village of Indian traders until June 9. 1802 when Jeffersonville became the county seat. One of the French traders was named Tully and the Indians called the place Tullytown.
* ↑ A court had been established by Governor St. Clair at Clarksville near what is now Jeffersonville, January 8, 1790; see also proclamation of February 3, 1801. June 9, 1802, the governor by proclamation designated Jeffersonville as the county seat and ordered the courts to meet there on August 1, following.
# Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison/Proclamation Erecting Dearborn county and appointing officers for same

Proclamation Erecting Dearborn County and Appointing Officers for Same
March 7, 1803
Whereas, I have received a petition from a number of citizens, inhabiting the south-east corner of the territory, stating the inconveniences they labor under for the want of a county establishment in that quarter, and praying that a new county may be laid off.
And whereas, I have received satisfactory evidence that there are a sufficient number of inhabitants within the proposed limits to justify a compliance with their request. I have thought proper to erect into a separate county all the lands lying and being within the following lands and lines and bounds, viz. Beginning at the mouth of the Great Miami thence north along the line separating the Indiana territory from the state of Ohio, to the intersection thereof with the Indiana boundary line running from a point opposite the mouth of the Kentucky River, thence, along the last mentioned line to the Ohio river and up the said river to the place of beginning; and the said county shall be known as designated by the name and styled under county of ​Dearborn and all the lands lying within the above described lines, and boundaries are hereby erected into the county of Dearborn; and the inhabitants of the said county of Dearborn shall have and enjoy all the rights privileges, and immunities whatsoever which to a county and the inhabitants thereof in any wise appertain.
And whereas it is of the utmost importance that a proper place should be selected in the name of justice for the said county, and as the information I have received, does not enable me at present to determine on the subject, I have thought proper to declare and ordain that until a permanent seat of justice shall be fixed in the session of the court of common pleas of the general quarter sessions of the peace and of the orphans court of the said county, shall be held at the town of Lawrenceburgh.
And I do hereby appoint Benjamin Chambers, Esquire, and his associates the justices of the courts of the quarter sessions of the peace for said county or any three of them commissioners to enquire into and report to me on a proper place for the permanent seat of justice as aforesaid.
In testimony whereof I, William Henry Harrison, Governor, hath hereunder set my hand and caused the seal of the territory to be hereunder affixed, at Vincennes, this 7th day of March, Anno Domino, one thousand eight hundred and three and of the independence of the United States of America the twenty seventh.
William Henry Harrison
By the Governor. John Gibson, Secretary
# Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison/Proclamation Forbidding settling, hunting and surveying on Indian lands

Proclamation: Forbidding Settling, Hunting, and Surveying on Indian Lands
May 9, 1801
Executive Journnal, 3
The Governor [Harrison] Issued a proclamation forbidding all persons from setleing, hunting, and surveying on any of the Indian lands and requiring all officers Civil and Military to remove any that should have setled, and prevent as much as possible any such attempt in future. [Abstract]
# Men-at-the-Bar/Wilson, John Charles

​Wilson, John Charles, M.A., B.C.L. Exeter Coll., Oxon, B.A. 1853, lecturer on law in Exeter, Queen's, St. John's, Wadham, and Keble Colls., Oxon, public examiner in jurisprudence and for the B.C.L. degree 1876-8 and in the faculty of law 1883, examiner for Vinerian law scholarship 1872 and 1885, deputy professor international law 1871, chairman Oxford School Board, a student of Lincoln's Inn 15 April, 1853 (then aged 21), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1856 (eldest son of William Wilson, Esq., late of army pay office, dec.); born 16 July, 1831; married 1 Dec., 1863, Elizabeth, eldest surviving dau. of Rev. Robert Salkeld, rector of Fontmell Magna, Dorset.
    Shelwood House, Oxford; Exeter College, Oxford.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Wilson, John James

​Wilson, John James, special pleader, a student of the Middle Temple 7 Jan., 1873, called to the bar 26 Jan., 1876 (2nd son of James Wilson, Esq., of Eccles, co. Lanc.); born 11 Feb., 1854.
    41, Queen's Road, St. John's Wood, N.W.; 6, Crown Office Row, Temple, E.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Wilson, Owen Saunders

​Wilson, Owen Saunders, author of The Larvae of the British Lepidoptera, a member of the South Wales circuit, a student of the Middle Temple 16 April, 1849, called to the bar 26 Jan., 1853 (only son of John Wilson, Esq., of the Middle Temple, late county court judge and recorder of Carmarthen, dec.); born 22 July, 1831; married 4 Sept., 1866, Eleanor, only dau. of Charles P. J. Lord, Esq., of Hampstead.
    Cwmffrwd, Carmarthen.