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Members of the Marlborough House Set

3 of 6 portraits of John Lumley-Savile, 2nd Baron Savile

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Members of the Marlborough House Set

by David Knights-Whittome, for James Russell & Sons
dry-plate glass negative, 23 November 1904
9 3/4in. x 11 7/8in. (248 mm x 301 mm)
Purchased, 1979
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NPG x8465

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Current affairs

Britain and France sign the Entente Cordiale, an agreement which resolves a number of longstanding colonial disputes (including a Declaration respecting Egypt and Morocco), signalling growing anxiety about the risk of future German aggression. Although not militarily binding, the agreement, negotiated between French foreign minister Théophile Delcassé, and Lord Lansdowne, the British Foreign Secretary, establishes a diplomatic understanding between the two countries.

Art and science

J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan is first performed at the Duke of York's Theatre in London. Charting the fantastical adventures of Peter, 'the boy who never grew up', the Darling children and the villainous Captain Hook in Neverland, many adaptations have been made of the story.
The painter Gwen John settles in Paris, where she becomes the lover and model of the sculptor Auguste Rodin, modelling for his sculpture Muse.

International

Japan attacks the Russian Navy at Port Arthur, sparking the Russo-Japanese war. Hostility was prompted by the rival imperialist ambitions of the Russian and Japanese empires in Manchuria, North East China, and Korea, considered by Japan to be an essential buffer against colonisation by Western Powers. Japan wins a series of victories against Russia which transforms the balance of power in East Asia, and undermines the Tsar's rule in Russia.

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Dr Nicholas Keegan

15 January 2017, 20:48

Isn't the portly gentleman in the front row. wearing an Inverness cape, Edward the Seventh?

Patricia Yznaga Robertson

15 August 2015, 00:12

My ancestor Consuelo Montagu Yznaga appears in this photograph. Do you have a way of identifying who is who in the photograph?

Thank you,
Patricia Yznaga Robertson
Austin, Texas

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