Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort, British peer, soldier and politician good versus evil Botanical study of reed or

Botanical study of reed or water meadow grass (Gramen aquaticum majus)

with a lizard from Surrey

View of an early flying machine passing over London

Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig

Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort, British peer, soldier and politician good versus evil Botanical study of reed orHenry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort, British peer, soldier and politician, c1890. A famous sportsman, Somerset (1824 1899) was editor of the Badminton Library series of books on sporting subjects. The family seat of the Dukes of Beaufort is Badminton House, Gloucestershire, venue of the famous Badminton horse trials equestrian event. A lithograph from The Modern Portrait Gallery, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, Paris and New York, c1890.