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I'm not sure I can play the game this way, but I was searching for someone interesting and this person has no picture (that I can find). If you can find one, I'd really like to see what he looked like.
*He died at 19, drown in the River Welland.
*He has a really really cool name.
*He wrote love poems to a classmate at Eton.
*He wrote:
"For should he ever pass and by me stand,he might understand,
Then heal the passion and the fever,with one cool kiss, forever.
{{hugs}}
GH
"You have your way. I have my way. As far as the right way, the correct way, and the only way - it doesn't exist."
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Okay, looks like it's Digby Mackworth Dolben?
There's information, but no photograph, at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digby_Mackworth_Dolben
I think it's pretty unlikely that any photographs exist, considering that he died in 1867 and photography was still in its infancy. If any paintings or sketches ever existed (and I don't know a lot of people who are 19 or younger who have been formally painted, even Etonians), I would imagine they are either on someone's wall or long since lost. Not online.
It's funny how, given that we can't go anywhere now without being caught on half a dozen cameras, only 140 years ago people were born, lived and died and we have no way of knowing what they ever looked like.
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Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Dolben
The poetry of that time was flowery and kind of makes me grind my teeth. I would have liked to have seen a painting or something because he sounds like really interesting. He caused scandals at school with exhibitionist behavior. Makes you wonder what that would have been back then.
I think what got me was this statement:
"Dolben was drowned in the River Welland, near Luffenham, aged 19 before he could go to Oxford. Also involved was Walter Prichard, son of his tutor, who could not swim." Guess we'll never know.
Your turn 
GH
"You have your way. I have my way. As far as the right way, the correct way, and the only way - it doesn't exist."
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