A group of men in front of a cricket pavilion. The Hon. Arthur Victor Agar-Robartes, later 8th Viscount Clifden (1887-1974), stands on the left wearing a hat and scarf and checked tweed jacket. A bicycle is just visible to his right.
Gillman & Co. Ltd
Category
Photographs
Date
1908 (circa)
Materials
Measurements
267 x 360 mm
Place of origin
Oxford
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 889930.21
Summary
A photograph of a group of twenty two young men standing and sitting in front of a cricket pavilion with wooden balustrade and plain glass windows. Most of them are dressed in sports clothes and the young man seated on the far right wears cricket pads and a young man seated in the centre has a dog, a whippet/lurcher, held between his legs. The Hon. Victor Agar-Robartes, later 8th Viscount Clifden, 1887-1974, stands on the left wearing a hat and scarf and checked tweed jacket. A bicycle is just visible to his right. Contained in a black and gold photograph album relating to the Hon. Victor Agar-Robartes, 1887-1974 and his time at University.
Provenance
This photograph album relates to the time the Hon. Victor Agar-Robartes,1887-1974, later 8th Viscount Clifden, spent at Brasenose College, Oxford University, c.1906-1909, and was given either by him or by his elder brother, the Hon. Gerald Agar-Robartes, 1883-1964, later 7th Viscount Clifden, who gave Lanhydrock to the National Trust in 1953.
Marks and inscriptions
Bottom right of photograph: (embossed in oval) GILLMAN & CO. / S. ALDATES.OXFORD
Makers and roles
Gillman & Co. Ltd, manufacturer