Captain Frederick Burnaby, officer in the Royal Horse Guards Press Ups dressed for Scotland

dressed for Scotland

View of the Custom House from the River Thames

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle contemplating the plurality of worlds

937 (1913)

View of Charlton House

Captain Frederick Burnaby, officer in the Royal Horse Guards Press Ups dressed for ScotlandCaptain Frederick Burnaby, officer in the Royal Horse Guards, 1877. A traveller and adventurer, Burnaby became famous when he published A Ride to Khiva, an account of his travels in central Asia undertaken in 1875 1876. He was killed in action at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan in 1885. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law,