Spy (Sir Leslie Ward, 1851-1922) (Lith.) — George Wyndham; Dover and War. Issue 1664. (First Edition Before the Bound Volumes. )

London: Vanity Fair, 1900. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm (15.75 x 10.6 inches). Good. Minor fold in bottom left corner and one inch tear in right margin, not affecting image. Lithograph laid-in within four pages from issue dated 20 Sep 1900, including letterpress biography of subject. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. George Wyndham, PC (29 August 1863 - 8 June 1913) was a British Conservative politician, statesman, man of letters, and one of The Souls. Wyndham was the elder son of the Honourable Percy Wyndham, third son of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield, and he was a direct descendant of Sir John Wyndham. His mother was Madeleine Campbell, sixth daughter of Major-General Sir Guy Campbell, 1st Baronet, and Pamela, through whom he was the great-grandson of the Irish Republican leader, Lord Edward FitzGerald, whom Wyndham greatly resembled physically. He was the brother of Guy Wyndham and Mary Constance Wyndham. He was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He joined the Coldstream Guards in March 1883, serving through the Suakin campaign of 1885. .