Priscilla Cecilia (née Moore), Countess Annesley
1 portrait of Priscilla Cecilia (née Moore), Countess Annesley
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Priscilla Cecilia (née Moore), Countess Annesley
by Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print on cream card mount, 1903
11 in. x 9 1/8 in. (280 mm x 231 mm) image size
Given by John Morton Morris, 2004
Photographs Collection
NPG x127403
Sitterback to top
- Priscilla Cecilia (née Moore), Countess Annesley (1870-1941), Second wife of 5th Earl of Annesley; daughter of William Armitage Moore. Sitter in 48 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Elliott & Fry (active 1863-1962), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 10998 portraits.
Placesback to top
- Place made and portrayed: United Kingdom: England, London (55 Baker Street, Portman Square, London)
Events of 1903back to top
Current affairs
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.
Art and science
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.
International
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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