Nora Moore Fellowes
Category
Photographs
Date
Unknown
Materials
Cardboard, Glass, Wood
Measurements
490 mm (H)235 mm (W)514 mm (H)260 mm (W)
Order this imageCollection
Saxon Cottage, Steyning, Sussex
NT 1295186
Summary
Photograph of Nora Moore Fellowes in a ballgown with a string of pearls. Polished wood frame.
Full description
A photograph of Nora Moore Fellowes, née Pullin (d.1976), who donated Saxon Cottage, Steyning to the National Trust. In 1905 she married James Fellowes (1869-1926) a colonel in the Indian Police Force and their sons James (1906-1923) and Robert (1911-1945) were both born in India. She was remembered by Violet Hays as, "A great character, rather like a gypsy queen. She always wore long robes of pearls over polo-neck sweaters. She was tall (over six feet) and lissome and walked slowly and grandly. She used to wear a tigerskin hat and if you remarked upon it, as people sometimes did, she would say, 'Oh, do you like it? I shot it myself! ' And she almost certainly had, for she was a crack shot and had gone traipsing around India with her husband. She was a lovely lady." (Quoted in Chris Nixon, The Robert Fellowes Collection; Grands Prix 1934-1939 (Isleworth, 2001), page 9.
Marks and inscriptions
D. WORGER / GEORGE STREET, HOVE (indistinctly stamped on reverse, faded)