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Ethel Earle (Clara Agnes Proctor)
2 of 41 portraits by Alexander Corbett
© National Portrait Gallery, London
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Ethel Earle (Clara Agnes Proctor)
by Alexander Corbett, for Alfred Ellis
albumen cabinet card, 1894
5 5/8 in. x 4 1/8 in. (142 mm x 104 mm) image size
Given by Royal College of Music, 1977
Photographs Collection
NPG x12566
Sitterback to top
- Ethel Earle (Clara Agnes Proctor) (active 1894-1934), Actress; second wife of Adney Payne; daughter of Alfred Pavey. Sitter in 1 portrait.
Artistsback to top
- Alexander Corbett, Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 41 portraits.
- Alfred Ellis (1854-1930), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 186 portraits.
Placesback to top
- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (photographer's studio, 20 Upper Baker Street, London)
Events of 1894back to top
Current affairs
Following Gladstone's resignation, Queen Victoria calls on the Liberal MP Archibald Primrose, the 5th Earl of Rosebery to become Prime Minister, a position he reluctantly accepts. His government is largely unsuccessful as the Tory-dominated House of Lords stop the whole of the Liberal's domestic legislation, and his foreign policy plans are defeated by internal Liberal disagreements.Art and science
The Prince of Wales opens Tower Bridge, built over the Thames to improve access to the growing commercial district of the East End. The bridge was constructed from two bascules, or leaves, which could be raised to allow ships to pass underneath.Rudyard Kipling's hugely popular collection of children's stories and poems, The Jungle Book, is published. The stories, based on Kipling's own experiences in India, have been adapted many times.
International
The arrest and court-martial of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish artillery officer, opens up divisions in France over anti-semitism continuing until Dreyfus's exoneration in 1906. The French President Sadi Carnot is assassinated by an Italian anarchist in Lyon.Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia following the death of Alexander III.
Japan and China go to war over control of Korea, with the more modern Japanese army winning an easy victory.
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Emily Tatlow
25 June 2020, 21:53
Hello!
I have been doing some research on my family history and found out that Ethel Earle (Clara Agnes Procter, 1867-1964) was my great-great-great-aunt! She was actually married three times. First to George Frederick William Procter who she divorced only after a year, in 1887 (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7984573?fbclid=IwAR0gk0AxcKVQAeWiMtaDCzsVsrIJA2xJjZQaYxtMC6qgVFl9qp26JHx7WBA)
, then to George Adney Payne. She actually divorced Payne in 1902, but still contested his will (!) https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4177783/4177786/77/george%20brookes
(http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7996779)
Finally she married John Ernest Jewell, who she also divorced (in 1923). http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C8034230
She lived until the age of 97, in Herne Bay, Kent and gave her money to her great-nephews and great-nieces (my grand-father was one of the beneficiaries)!