| Thomas Carlyle | | Frontispiece |
| From the painting by G. F. Watts in the National Portrait Gallery. | |
| Sir Robert Peel | Facing Page: | 31 |
| From the painting by J. Linnell in the National Portrait Gallery. | |
| Sir Charles Napier | " | 54 |
| From the drawing by Edwin Williams in the National Portrait Gallery. | |
| Lord Shaftesbury | " | 73 |
| From the painting by G. F. Watts in the National Portrait Gallery. | |
| Lord Lawrence | " | 92 |
| From the painting by G. F. Watts in the National Portrait Gallery. | |
| John Bright | " | 110 |
| From the painting by W. W. Ouless in the National Portrait Gallery. | |
| Charles Dickens | " | 129 |
| From the painting by Daniel Maclise in the National Portrait Gallery. | |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson | " | 150 |
| From the painting by G. F. Watts in the National Portrait Gallery. | |
| Charles Kingsley | " | 177 |
| From a drawing by W. S. Hunt in the National Portrait Gallery. | |
| George Frederick Watts | " | 196 |
| From a painting by himself in the National Portrait Gallery. | |
| John Coleridge Patteson | " | 220 |
| From a drawing by William Richmond. (By kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd.) | |
| Sir Robert Morier | " | 245 |
| From a drawing by William Richmond. (By kind permission of Mr. Edward Arnold.) | |
| Lord Lister | " | 276 |
| From a photograph by Messrs. Barraud. | |
| William Morris | " | 300 |
| From the painting by G. F. Watts in the National Portrait Gallery. | |
| John Richard Green | " | 323 |
| From a drawing by Frederick Sandys. (By kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd.) | |
| Cecil Rhodes | " | 349 |
| From the painting by G. F. Watts in the National Portrait Gallery. | |
