1-273-581 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Major-General Lord Chelmsford, British soldier, 1882. Frederick Augustus Thesiger (1827-1905), 2nd Baron Chelmsford, was commander of the British forces that suffered a disastrous defeat by the Zulus at the Battle of Isandhlwana in 1879. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (Conducted by G. C. Whitfield.) (London, 1876-1883).