Captain the Hon. Ronald Henry Fulke Greville (1864-1908)
Elliott & Fry [photographers]
Category
Photographs
Date
Unknown
Materials
metal and photographic paper
Measurements
95 mm (H)60 mm (W)5 mm (D)
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Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 1246539
Summary
A studio portrait of the Hon. Ronald Greville presented as a miniature.
Full description
Ronald is wearing a Panama hat, a white shirt, dark jacket, pale waistcoat and tie. There is a white handkerchief in his breast pocket and a small jewelled tie pin on his tie. In the Collection 1246789 is the full sized version of this image. The Hon Ronald Greville was the eldest son of Algernon Greville, 2nd Baron Greville and Lady Beatrice Violet, daughter of James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose and the Hon. Agnes Horsley-Beresford. He attended Rugby School, was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Argyll and Sutherland before he transferred to the Life Guards. In 1891 Ronald married Margaret Helen Anderson the wealthy daughter of the brewer William McEwan. William bought the couple 11 Charles Street, as their London home, and enabled his daughter to purchase and maintain Polesden Lacey, Surrey. They were married for seventeen years, had no children, but were part of the Marlborough House set due to Captain Ronald's background, his friendship with George Keppel and his love of house. Ronald died in 1908, predeceasing his father, he is buried in St Nicholas' Church, Great Bookham close to his mother. Images 1246713, 1246734 and 1246687 are of Captain Greville in his Life Guard Uniform.
Makers and roles
Elliott & Fry [photographers], photographer