Madeline Cecilia Carlyle Brodrick (née Stanley), Countess of Midleton as Lady Hopeton, after a miniature by Cosway
1 portrait of Madeline Cecilia Carlyle Brodrick (née Stanley), Countess of Midleton
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Madeline Cecilia Carlyle Brodrick (née Stanley), Countess of Midleton as Lady Hopeton, after a miniature by Cosway
by Lafayette, photogravure by Walker & Boutall
photogravure, 1897; published 1899
6 7/8 in. x 5 1/4 in. (175 mm x 132 mm) image size
Purchased, 1975
Photographs Collection
NPG Ax41227
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- Madeline Cecilia Carlyle Brodrick (née Stanley), Countess of Midleton (1876-1966), Second wife of 1st Earl of Midleton; daughter of Hon. John Constantine Stanley. Sitter in 1 portrait.
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- Lafayette (Lafayette Ltd) (active 1880-1962), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 6908 portraits.
- Walker & Boutall, Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 321 portraits.
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Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee is marked by a series of celebratory events, and attended by eleven colonial prime ministers following the Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain's proposal that the Jubilee be made a festival of the British Empire.The Workmen's Compensation Act gives workmen a right to a limited compensation in every case of injury by accident arising from the course of employment; it is a landmark piece of legislation in employment law.
Art and science
Bram Stoker's Dracula is first published.Henry Tate of the Tate and Lyle sugar company donates his art collection to the nation, buying land and building a gallery space for it (now Tate Britain).
Physician and psychologist Havelock Ellis publishes the first volume of his Studies in the Psychology of Sex, and the English physicist John Thompson discovers the existence of the electron.
International
The burning of Benin city by Britain takes place, known also as the Punitive Exhibition of 1897. The excursion, led by Admiral Sir Harry Rawson, was a response to an attack by Benin warriors on a British delegation sent to settle a dispute over customs duties collected by British traders. During the expedition the British Admiralty destroyed much of the city's treasured art, including the Benin Bronzes, auctioning off the rest as war booty to recoup costs.Comments back to top
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William A. Davis, Jr., Ph.D.
05 October 2016, 16:23
Madeline Stanley was the older of two daughters born to Lady Mary Jeune and her first husband, Sir John Constantine Stanley. Following his death Lady Jeune married Sir Francis Jeune, a lawyer and justice in the divorce and admiralty court. Madeline grew up in London at 79 Harley Street and at Arlington Manor in Berkshire (now the Mary Hare Grammar School for Deaf Children). She married William St. John Brodrick in 1903 and afterwards became Countess of Midleton through his assumption of his father's title. They had two sons, Francis and Michael, who were killed in action a day apart in Salerno in September 1943. (Her husband had died in February 1942.) Lady Midleton died in 1966. Her sister was Osma Mary Dorothy Stanley, who married Augustus Henry Eden Allhusen in 1896. She died in 1965.