38. Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GBE, PC (1868 – 1933) Viceroy and Governor General of India and His Highness Maharaja Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV, Maharaja of Mysore, GCSI, GBE (1884-1940) and guests watching the drive into the inner enclosure, Mysore India.
Category
Photographs
Date
1919
Materials
Measurements
82 x 136 mm
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 886556.39
Summary
A photograph of five men including the Maharaja and Lord Chelmsford, standing on a bank. The Maharaja wears a black coat over a white tunic and trousers and holds an opened umbrella; beside him Lord Chelmsford wears a pith helmet and suit. The three other men also wear pith helmets. Labourers watch the group from a lean-to beside a tree. 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.