Sir Charles Lennox Wyke

People who've taken a look at my notes on the Orphic Circle know that I favor Sir Charles Lennox Wyke for participation in the Orphic Circle (in no small part because he was given to bragging about his occult associations with Bulwer Lytton), and for playing a role -- how central it's impossible to determine -- in introducing Emma into the Circle.

Here's the only image of Wyke I've been able to obtain:

But, as always, what you get in the margins (in this case, his micro-bio from the issue of Vanity Fair in which the portrait was originally published), proves as interesting as the main attraction.

Turns out Wyke was the childhood schoolmate of George, Prince of Cumberland, the first cousin of Queen Victoria and eventually George V of Hanover. Thomas Gibson Bowles ("Jehu Junior") is a bit catty about Wyke in his write-up of the (by that time) elder statesman, but he does note that Wyke's German connections and Germanophilism were so pronounced in his early adult life (as a soldier) that he was commonly known as the Baron.

Yet another angle on Louis de B________....