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THE STRAND MAGAZINE.

LORD CHARLES BERESFORD.

Born 1846.

Age 14.
From a Photograph.
Age 40.
From a Photo. by Dickinson & Foster.
Age 20.
From a Photograph.
Present Day.
From a Photo. by Merlin, Athens.


L ORD CHARLES BERESFORD, son of the Marquis of Waterford, entered the Royal Navy at thirteen, served on several warships, and accompanied the Prince of Wales to India, in 1875, as Naval Aide-de-Camp. At the bombardment of Alexandria he was in command of the gunboat Condor, and his gallant conduct in bearing down on the Marabout batteries and silencing guns immensely superior to his own was so conspicuous that the Admiral's ship signalled: "Well done, Condor!" In 1884 he assisted Lord Wolseley in the Nile Expedition.

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