Leander Starr Jameson ('Dr Jim')

Spy renders 'Dr Jim'—Leander Starr Jameson, architect of the disastrous Jameson Raid of December 1895—seated in a leather armchair, one leg crossed, right hand raised in an almost forensic gesture of explanation. The brown lounge suit and easy posture signal colonial informality rather than metropolitan polish. The caption 'Dr Jim' invokes the popular-press nickname that had briefly made Jameson a rogue hero to jingo opinion: he had led a private armed column into the Transvaal in a botched bid to topple the Boer government on behalf of British mining interests. Ward's caricature—published while Jameson awaited trial—reads the man charitably, the pose suggesting persuasion rather than guilt.