Excerpt from Supplement to the Historical and Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures, Busts, Etc., In the National Portrait Gallery, St. Martin's Place, W. C: April 1906 Journalist. Comic-writer, and police magistrate. Born in London and educated at Westminster School. Called to the Bar at Gray's Inn, but devoted himself to literature. His writings being chiefly in the comic vein, he produced and edited the first comic paper in London, called Figaro in London, ' and was one of the original stafl of Punch.' He contributed also to The Times, ' The Illus trated London News, ' and other journals. As the author of The Comic History of England, ' and other similar works, he showed an unusual power of genial and subtle wit and humour, which has always remained popular. In 1849 he was appointed a metropolitan police magistrate, in which capacity he was much respected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.