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Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
11 of 64 portraits of Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
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Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
by H. Walter Barnett
bromide print on card mount, 1903
9 7/8 in. x 6 1/4 in. (250 mm x 159 mm) image size
Given by Xenia Dennen, 2014
Photographs Collection
NPG x182279
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- Henry Walter ('H. Walter') Barnett (1862-1934), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 576 portraits, Sitter in 2 portraits.
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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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John Hussey
26 March 2018, 17:30
DH in the uniform of 17th Lancers of which he was Lt-Colonel commanding in S Africa in 1902 and in Edinburgh in 1903. He gave up the command when he went to India as Insp-Gen of Cav in India late in 1903