John Fletcher, Esq. 
16 August 1862

Volume 9, page 79, sitting number 11,315. 

[The sitter is identified as 'John Fletcher, Esq.' in the Silvy daybooks. An inked inscription verso in a period hand identifies him as 'Col. Fletcher.' However, I can find no trace of a 'Colonel John Fletcher' in any contemporary source. The likelisest match is Colonel Edward Charles Fletcher of the Scots Fusilier Guards, a magistrate who lived near Maidstone in Kent. He certainly displays all the hallmarks of a typical Silvy sitter — a large house, extensively staffed, he left a fortune when he died — but accepting this identification means ignoring the identification in the daybooks.]