Mary Howe (Curzon), Countess Howe; Lady Diana Cooper (Diana (née Manners), Viscountess Norwich)
1 portrait of Lady Diana Cooper (Diana (née Manners), Viscountess Norwich)
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Mary Howe (Curzon), Countess Howe; Lady Diana Cooper (Diana (née Manners), Viscountess Norwich)
by Christina Broom
half-plate glass negative, July 1912
6 5/8in. x 4 1/2in. (154 mm x 114 mm)
Photographs Collection
NPG x166
Sittersback to top
- Mary Howe (née Curzon), Countess Howe (1887-1962), First wife of 5th Earl Howe; daughter of Hon. Montagu Curzon. Sitter in 10 portraits.
- Lady Diana Cooper (Diana (née Manners), Viscountess Norwich) (1892-1986), Actress and writer; wife of 1st Viscount Norwich; daughter of 8th Duke of Rutland. Sitter associated with 39 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Mrs Albert Broom (Christina Livingston) (1862-1939), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 94 portraits, Sitter in 4 portraits.
Placesback to top
- Place made and portrayed: United Kingdom: England, London (Elizabethan Tourney, Empress Hall, Earls Court, London)
Events of 1912back to top
Current affairs
The Royal Flying Corps is established. During the Great War, planes and balloons were used mainly for reconnaissance and observation before technological advances made them fast enough and manoeuvrable enough to attack enemy positions and fight in the air. Arthur (Bomber) Harris won distinction as a pilot destroying five enemy aircraft in the war. In the Second World War he became Marshal of the Royal Air Force.Art and science
George Bernard Shaw writes Pygmalion.Charles Babbage's invents the Analytic Machine. Considered to be the forerunner to the modern computer, the machine was able to make automatic mathematical calculations.
International
Scott leads the British Expedition to the South Pole reaching it in January 1912 only to discover that the rival Norwegian party had beaten them by a month. All members of Scott's team perished on the return journey. Captain Oates' famous last words were immortalised in Scott's diary: 'I am just going outside and may be some time.'The 'unsinkable' Titanic strikes an iceberg and goes down on its maiden journey between Southampton and New York.
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