Margaret (née Lygon), Lady Ampthill







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Margaret (née Lygon), Lady Ampthill
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 4 April 1918
Given by Bassano & Vandyk Studios, 1974
Photographs Collection
NPG x33473
Sitterback to top
- Margaret (née Lygon), Lady Ampthill (1874-1957), Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary; wife of 2nd Baron Ampthill; daughter of 6th Earl Beauchamp. Sitter in 9 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Bassano Ltd (active 1901-1962), Photographers. Artist associated with 42745 portraits.
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Despite the suspension of the Suffrage movement during the war, the Government finally agrees to grant women the right to vote as recognition of their vital role in the war effort. However, The Representation of the People Act only extended the franchise to female householders and university graduates over 30. Equal rights to men were not granted until 1928.Art and science
War Poet, Wilfred Owen, is killed in action just a week before the end of the war. His poems, including Dulce et Decorum Est and Anthem for Doomed Youth, tell of the horror of war in the trenches and the tragic loss of a generation of young men who enthusiastically signed up to fight in a war that became seen as futile rather than glorious.International
British representative, Admiral Rosslyn Wemyss, signs the Armistice calling a ceasefire on the 11th November 1918 and ending the war. Germany and Austria loose their empires and become republics. Around the same time a global flu pandemic brakes out - known in England as Spanish Flu - killing 50-100 million people within a year compared to 15 million fatalities from the four years of war.Tell us more back to top
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K. G. Bushman
12 May 2020, 21:16
In this picture, Lady Ampthill is wearing a British Red Cross Society uniform. She was the Chairman of the Joint Women's Voluntary Aid Detachments from 1917 to at least 1919.