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After dinner, when the ladies had retired, he loved to recount the story of his floggings, 1881. Creator: R&E Taylor.

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After dinner, over a glass of fine old Madeira, when the ladies had retired, he loved to recount the story of his floggings, 1881. No. XV. - the Rector. His style and title was the Reverend David Guy, Rector of Muchmore-cum-Pluribus, in Berkshire... Guy was about fifty-five, of the right sort of height, with thin greyish hair, and sandy whiskers turning to grey. Of a rather flabby face and peaked nose. They used to call him "Snipe" at Eton, where, by-the-way, he had been flogged twenty-three times, being second in flagellatory honours to none of his contemporaries, excepting Mr. (afterwards the Duke of) Beresford. After dinner, over a glass of fine old Madeira, when the ladies had retired, he loved to recount the story of his floggings; and succeeded in leaving on his hearers the impression that he richly merited twenty-two of them at the least'. Illustration from "People I Have Met", published in "Illustrated London News", 1881.

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HRM25A42_387

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18,5Mo (2,0Mo) / 18,2cm x 25,5cm / 2149 x 3014 (300dpi)

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