Viscount and Viscountess Cowdray with their bridesmaids and page boy
Viscount and Viscountess Cowdray with their bridesmaids and page boy
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 19 July 1939
9 1/2 in. x 11 1/2 in. (241 mm x 292 mm) image size
Given by The British Museum, London, 1995
Photographs Collection
NPG x76569
Artistback to top
- Unknown photographer, Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 6584 portraits.
Sittersback to top
- Marjorie Joyce Byers (née Llewellyn) (1917-1971), Wife of Frank May Reid Byers; daughter of Sir David Richard Llewellyn, 1st Bt. Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Weetman John Churchill Pearson, 3rd Viscount Cowdray (1910-1995), Businessman and landowner. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
- Anne Pamela (née Bridgeman), Viscountess Cowdray (1913-2009), First wife of 3rd Viscount Cowdray; daughter of 5th Earl of Bradford. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
- Suzanne Houssemayne Gordon (née Du Boulay) (1917-1983), First wife of Lord Douglas Claude Alexander Gordon; daughter of Arthur Houssemayne Du Boulay. Sitter in 3 portraits.
- Hon. (Helena) Daphne Lakin (née Pearson) (1918-2015), Polo player; founder of the Iping Horse Trials; wife of John Lakin; daughter of 2nd Viscount Cowdray. Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Diana Starkey, Bridesmaid of Viscount and Viscountess Cowdray. Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Virginia (née Gilliat), Lady Sykes (1916-1970), Wife of Sir (Mark Tatton) Richard Sykes, 7th Bt; daughter of John Francis Grey Gilliat. Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Viola Maud Grosvenor (née Lyttelton), Duchess of Westminster (1912-1987), Lord Lieutenant; daughter of 9th Viscount Cobham; wife of 5th Duke of Westminster. Sitter in 8 portraits.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Edited by Lucy Peltz & Louise Stewart, Love Stories: Art, Passion & Tragedy, 2020, p. 116
Placesback to top
- Place made and portrayed: United Kingdom: England, London (St Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey, Parliament Square, London)
Subjects & Themesback to top
Events of 1939back to top
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The Second World War begins. Germany's invasion of Poland prompted Britain and France to declare war forming the core of the Allied powers. As part of the Soviet-Nazi Pact, the Soviet Union joined the war on the German side, helping, with Italy, to form the Axis Powers. Poland was soon overpowered and the Baltic Republics and Finland were invaded by the Soviet Union.Comments back to top
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