Modern English biography

(1874–82) _seven portraits_; _Victor Hugo’s Napoleon le Petit_ (1852); _Fagan’s Reform club_ (1887) 94 _portrait_: _Passing Events 18 Jany. 1873 portrait and other plates_; _I.L.N. 6 June 1846 pp._ 364–5 _portrait_, _23 Dec. 1848 p._ 385 _portrait_, _21 April to 5 May 1855 pp._ 371 _et seq._ _portraits_, _15 Aug. 1857 p._ 154, _25 March 1871 p._ 283, _18 and 25 Jany. 1873 p._ 65 _et seq._ _portraits_; _J. H. Nixon’s Eglinton tournament_ (1843) _plates xviii, xx, and xxi_; _P. Larousse’s Grand Dictionnaire xi_ 819–33 (1874). NOTE.--His real father was Charles Henri Verhuel a well-known Dutch admiral, his mother was Hortense de Beauharnais, dau. of the empress Josephine, by her first marriage. He is depicted under the name of Porphyro in the novel entitled Rumour, By the author of Charles Auchester, Counterparts, &c, &c. [Miss Elizabeth S. Sheppard] 3 vols.