Historical and Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures, Busts, &C. In the National Portrait Gallery, St. Martin's Place, W. C

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Excerpt from Historical and Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures, Busts, &C., In the National Portrait Gallery, St. Martin's Place, W. C: Including Every Portrait Up to the Present DateJournalist, comic-writer, and metropolitan police magistrate. Born in London and educated at Westminster School. Called to the Bar at Gray's Inn, but devoted himself to literature. His writings being chie¿y in the comic vein, he produced and edited the first comic paper in London, called 'figaro in Londo and was one of the original staff of Punch.' Author of 'the mic History of England, ' and other similar works. Buried in High gate cemetery. (lww' March, 1904, by his son, Arthur W. A. Beckett, Esq.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.