22. Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GBE, PC (1868 – 1933) Viceroy and Governor General of India, Frances Charlotte Guest, Viscountess Chelmsford (1869-1957) and His Highness Maharaja Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV, Maharaja of Mysore, GCSI, GBE (1884-1940) watching the roping operations, Mysore, India.
Category
Photographs
Date
1919
Materials
Measurements
82 x 136 mm
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 886556.23
Summary
A photograph of elephants in a stockade ridden by labourers, a group of people, all wearing pith helmets, look on from the covered area behind the stockade. The Maharaja and Lord and Lady Chelmsford on the right. Contained in a grey photograph album containing photographs of the Khedda Operations in the Kakankota Forests of Mysore as witnessed in December 1919 by His Excellency Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy and Governor General of India.
Provenance
A gift from the Hon. Gerald Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden, who gave Lanhydrock to the National Trust in 1953 and continued to live there with his two sisters, Everilda and Violet, until his death in 1966. Probably belonged to the Hon. Alexander Agar-Robartes who was Aide-de-camp to Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy of India, in 1919.