Walter Durnford. Colour lithograph by L. Ward (Spy), 1902.

Sir Walter Durnford, Provost of King's College Cambridge 1918-1926; mayor of Cambridge 1909. Described in the Oxford dictionary of national biography as "a man of great sweetness of character, which he masked under a humorous incisiveness of manner", and rememberered as "'a good scholar of the old school' who viewed the idea of academic research with especial aversion". Portrayed in a brown tweed suit holding a matching cap and his cane