Lady Marjorie Blanche Eva Beckett with her son
1 of 6 portraits of Marjorie Blanche Eva Duncombe (née Greville, later Beckett), Countess of Feversham of Ryedale
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Lady Marjorie Blanche Eva Beckett with her son
by Unknown artist
gravure, 1907
10 5/8 in. x 8 3/8 in. (270 mm x 212 mm) overall
Given by Andrew Cowan, 1987
Photographs Collection
NPG x132873
Sittersback to top
- Marjorie Blanche Eva Duncombe (née Greville, later Beckett), Countess of Feversham of Ryedale (1884-1964), Daughter of 5th Earl of Warwick; former wife of 2nd Earl of Feversham of Ryedale, and later wife of Sir William Gervase Beckett, 1st Bt. Sitter in 6 portraits.
- Charles William Slingsby ('Sim') Duncombe, 3rd Earl of Feversham (1906-1963), Lord-in-Waiting to George V and Edward VIII and Director of Midland Bank and Clydesdale and North of Scotland Bank. Sitter in 15 portraits.
Events of 1907back to top
Current affairs
Robert Baden Powell, a former lieutenant-general in the British Army, forms the Boy Scout Movement after holding a camp on Brownsea Island for a group of twenty-two boys of mixed social background. Baden Powell was inspired after finding that his 1903 military training manual Aids to Scouting had become a bestseller, and was being used by teachers and youth workers. The Scout movement has become a Worldwide phenomenon, with over 38 million members in 216 countries.Art and science
The poet, author and critic Edmund Gosse publishes his autobiography Father and Son, an account of his relationship with his devout Christian father, the zoologist Phillip Gosse. Edmund's detailing of his loss of faith is a reflection on the Victorian age itself.Anna Pavlova first dances The Dying Swan, choreographed by Michel Fokine to music by Camille Saint-Saens, at a charity performance.
International
America is gripped by a financial crisis as a collapse of trust companies causes panic amongst shareholders.Aged twenty, the Swiss architect Le Corbusier, one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century architecture, designs his first house at La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland.
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