India: Group includes: The Hon. Alexander George Agar-Robartes, MC (1895-1930), Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GBE, PC (1868 – 1933), Viceroy of India and his wife Frances Charlotte Guest, Viscountess Chelmsford (1869-1957), and their daughters The Hon. Joan Frances Vere Thesiger, Lady Lascelles (1895-1971) and The Hon. Bridget |Mary Thesiger, The Hon. Mrs Richard Hasell Sheepshanks later The Hon. Odoardo Beccari (b.1900)
Category
Photographs
Date
1919
Materials
Photographic paper
Place of origin
India
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890169
Summary
Formal photograph of a large group of men and women and a girl with a dog, two rows standing and one seated, outside a large building with arches and balustrade, the windows shuttered. The women and girl are in smart dresses with hats, and the men are in suits, one in uniform, and the Indians in high necked coats and turbans. The Hon Alexander Agar-Robartes is standing in the back row, third from left; in centre, seated, are Lord and Lady Chelmsford, Viceroy of India, with their daughter, the Hon. Margaret seated on the floor with dog. The Hon Mrs Sheepshanks, daughter of Lord and Lady Chelmsford, is seated far left and the Hon Joan Thesiger who married Capt A. F. Lascelles, is standing behind her parents, possibly her husband on her right. LAN.PH.1770 is identical. India c.1919