1-273-617 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sir Richard Airey, 1878. Airey was Quarter-Master General of the 1st Brigade of the Light Division, and was present at the battles of Alma and Inkermann during the Crimean War, and wrote the order for the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava. He was also Governor of Gibraltar. 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).