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'The Sisters Moore'

by (Edward) Adolphus Tear, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, 1903
3 1/2 in. x 5 3/8 in. (88 mm x 136 mm) overall
Given by Terence Pepper, 2014
Photographs Collection
NPG x197830

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Emmeline Pankhurst forms the militant organisation, the Women's Social and Political Union, campaigning for greater rights for women and to secure them the vote. Its members were known as 'suffragettes', and adopted the slogan of 'Deeds, not words'.
Joseph Chamberlain resigns as Colonial Secretary to campaign for tariff reform and an end to free trade, a key economic issue which splits the Conservative party.

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Henry James publishes The Ambassadors. Autobiographical in tone, it movingly and humorously traces the conversion of the American Lewis Lambert Strether, sent to Paris to find his widowed fiancee Mrs Newsome's wayward son Chad, to European culture.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the leading Scottish arts and crafts designer and architect, designs the Willow tea rooms in Glasgow for his patron, Miss Catherine Cranston.

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The Bolsheviks (meaning 'the majority'), a faction of the exiled Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, are formed after splitting from the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in London.
After gaining independence following the end of the Spanish-American war, Cuba is forced to accept a permanent US military presence at Guantánamo Bay.

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Hester Schofield

10 November 2021, 19:00

Adolphus Tear (1862 - 1925 )was born in Firozpur, Punjab, India, one of nine children. His father was an English officer in the Royal Engineering Corps. - Richard Henry Tear His mother, Jemima Tear, nee Rossiter was Anglo Indian with an English missionary father - Charles Rossiter and an Indian mother, Grace Rossiter who converted from Islam to Christianity. Adolphus first arrived in England with his family in 1872, aged 11. At 18 he worked as a professional photographer for his father in Wimbledon and set up his own photographic studio in Ipswich in the 1890's, which bore his name until 1942. In 1901 he opened a second portrait studio at 42 High Street. Notting Hill and worked as a successful commercial portrait photographer for the rest of his life.