Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832-1914), Field Marshal
Sitter in 69 portraits
Roberts was born in India and served much of his military career there. He rose to Major-General during the Afghan war, 1878-80, and Commander-in-Chief in India, 1885-93. He enjoyed enormous popularity at home, which was much enhanced by his decisive command in the Second Boer War, 1900. He returned to England on being appointed Commander-in-Chief of the British army, 1900-04, but found himself in disagreement with government defence policy. He spent his remaining years warning against the German threat and arguing the case for national service.
Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
by Unknown photographer
photogravure
NPG x12486
Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
by Adolf Eckstein, probably after Carl Vandyk
photogravure
NPG x12487
Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
by Carl Vandyk, published by The Regal Publishing Co
photogravure
NPG x12488
Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen cabinet card
NPG x4979
Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
after Sir William Newzam Prior Nicholson
lithograph after a woodcut, 1897
NPG D9923
Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
published by William Heinemann, after Sir William Newzam Prior Nicholson
lithographic reproduction of a hand-coloured woodcut, published 1899 (1897)
NPG D32967
Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
by The Autotype Company, after Sir Francis Bernard ('Frank') Dicksee
collotype, (1914)
NPG D20797
Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
by The Autotype Company, after Sir Francis Bernard ('Frank') Dicksee
collotype, (1914)
NPG D9924
Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1882
NPG Ax17681
Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
by Lock & Whitfield
woodburytype, 1882 or before
NPG x12485
Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
by Elliott & Fry
half-plate negative, 1900s
NPG x82300
Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
by Bassano, after Unknown artist
12 x 10 inch glass copy negative, 4 May 1904
NPG x128017
Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
by Bassano
12 x 10 inch glass copy negative, 12 July 1904
NPG x128018
Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
by Bassano
12 x 10 inch glass copy negative, 12 July 1904
NPG x128019
Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
by Bassano
12 x 10 inch glass copy negative, 12 July 1904
NPG x128020
Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley; Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
by Christina Broom
glass negative, 1911
NPG x751
Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Pretoria and Waterford
by Walter Stoneman, for James Russell & Sons
bromide print, circa 1916
NPG Ax39018
Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Pretoria and Waterford
by Walter Stoneman
negative, copied August 1941
NPG x509
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Groups
The Raj and the Indian sub-continent
Place
India
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