Lord Robert Cecil, K.C., M.P.

Spy (Leslie Ward) renders Lord Robert Cecil—barrister, King's Counsel, and Conservative MP—striding leftward in full legal regalia: powdered wig, white bands, and a billowing black gown over pinstriped trousers, a brief tucked under one arm. The caption below reads "So voluble an advocate should become a successful Parliamentarian," neatly yoking his courtroom fluency to parliamentary ambition. Cecil's profile is mildly exaggerated—long nose, jutting chin—but the caricature stays well within Spy's gentlemanly register. The image flatters as much as it mocks, presenting Cecil as a man of obvious consequence briskly moving from bar to bench to Commons, which is precisely the trajectory his career—and eventually a Nobel Peace Prize—bore out.