'Wokingham' — Sir George Russell, M.P.

Spy renders Sir George Russell—Conservative MP for Wokingham—in strict profile, a pose that amplifies the caricaturist's license with his large, downward-curving nose and protruding lower jaw. He wears the Victorian gentleman's uniform: black frock coat with silk-faced lapels, buff trousers, and a tall silk hat perched over a cloud of white side-whiskers. Hands pocketed, he projects the cultivated idleness of a county magnate rather than a parliamentary fighter. The caption simply reads 'Wokingham', Vanity Fair's habitual practice of naming the constituency rather than the man—a wry suggestion that such members were more seat than statesman. No overt political satire sharpens the image; Ward's needle here is social, skewering the well-fed English squire who drifted into Westminster on property and tradition.