'Calcutta' — James Edward Cowell Welldon, Bishop of Calcutta

Leslie Ward ('Spy') renders Welldon in three-quarter profile, hands clasped at the chest, dressed entirely in clerical black with the single white collar-band that identifies his Anglican orders. The caption reads 'Calcutta', nodding to his appointment as Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan of India in 1898 after a high-profile headmastership at Harrow. Welldon is treated as a straightforward English churchman — fleshy, self-satisfied, faintly smug — his rotund silhouette doing the satirical work. A well-fed Establishment clergyman dispatched to govern the spiritual empire, his folded hands suggest prayer or self-congratulation in equal measure.