'Westminster' — The Rev. William Gunion Rutherford

Ward draws Rutherford, the formidable classicist and Head Master of Westminster School, in full academic dress: black gown, button-front waistcoat, clerical bands at the throat, and a mortarboard tilted squarely above a sharp, angular profile. The caption reads simply "Westminster" — institution swallowing individual, as was Vanity Fair's habit with great schoolmasters. The caricature emphasises a long nose, jutting jaw, and rigid posture, stock devices Ward used to suggest intellectual severity. The politics are those of late-Victorian meritocracy: Rutherford, a Scot of scholarly reputation, had dragged Westminster's curriculum toward rigorous Greek philology, making him a figure of mild controversy among the old-money families who sent their sons there.