Charles Bravo

A carte-de-visite portrait – after a drawing by an unidentified artist – of Charles Bravo, who was murdered in the London district of Balham in 1876, in an incident sometimes referred to as ‘The Murder at the Priory.’ The cause of death was poisoning by potassium antimony tartrate.

No one was ever convicted of Charles Bravo’s murder. One book (Death at the Priory by James Ruddick, published in 2001) argues convincingly that the murderer was his wife Florence Bravo, and that the housekeeper Mrs Jane Cox must have at least covered for her, and perhaps actively helped.

Photographer unidentified [reverse is blank].