3-028-139 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

[One of] the Englishmen killed by Greek brigands: Mr. F. G. Vyner, 1870. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Lock and Whitfield. 'The bodies of the three English gentlemen - Mr. Edward Herbert, Mr. Frederick Vyner, and Mr. Edward Lloyd - who were murdered, with Count de Boyl, by the brigands of Attica, on the 21st April, ten days after their capture near Marathon,...were found and brought to Athens...Mr. Frederick Vyner was the youngest son of the late Captain Henry Vyner, of Gautby, by Lady Mary Vyner, daughter of the late Earl De Grey. His sisters are married, one to Earl De Grey and Ripon; the other to the Marquis of Northampton...[He was] greatly beloved and esteemed for the virtues of [his] personal character, which were shown to all the world in [his] brave and generous behaviour while in the hands of the Greek brigands'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.