Frances Helen Manners (née Sweeny), Duchess of Rutland; Margaret, Duchess of Argyll
1 portrait of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll
© estate of Bertram Park / National Portrait Gallery, London
Frances Helen Manners (née Sweeny), Duchess of Rutland; Margaret, Duchess of Argyll
by Marcus Adams
chlorobromide print, 1938
8 1/4in. x 5 3/4in. (204 mm x 147 mm)
Purchased, 1991
Photographs Collection
NPG x38223
Sittersback to top
- (Ethel) Margaret Campbell (née Whigham), Duchess of Argyll (1912-1993), Former wife of Charles Sweeny, and later third wife of Ian Douglas Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll; daughter of George Hay Whigham. Sitter associated with 63 portraits.
- Frances Helen Manners (née Sweeny), Duchess of Rutland (1937-2024), Second wife of 10th Duke of Rutland; daughter of Charles Sweeny. Sitter in 38 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Marcus Adams (1875-1959), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 154 portraits, Sitter in 33 portraits.
Events of 1938back to top
Current affairs
Britain pursues its policy of appeasement. At the Munich Agreement, Britain, France and Italy agreed to allow Hitler to seize the Sudetenland area of Czechoslovakia. The agreement was seen at the time as a triumph for peace, with Neville Chamberlain returning home brandishing the paper agreement and saying 'peace for our time.' Within six months Germany had occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia.Art and science
Graham Greene publishes Brighton Rock. The novel follows the descent of Pinky, a teenage gang leader in Brighton's criminal underworld. The book examines the criminal mind and explores the themes of morality and sin - recurrent concerns for the Roman Catholic Author.Glasgow hosts the Empire Exhibition; an £11 million celebration of the British Empire visited by 13 million people.
International
In its pursuit of 'Lebensraum' (living space), Germany annexes Austria and parts of Czechoslovakia with little opposition from the League of Nations. At home, the Nazis continued their escalating persecution of the Jews with 'Kristallnacht' (the Night of Broken Glass), attacking Jewish homes, shops, businesses and synagogues, and taking Jewish men to concentration camps.Comments back to top
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