Lady Jocelyn and Family
2 of 2 portraits of Hon. Frederick Spencer Jocelyn
Lady Jocelyn and Family
by Unknown photographer
albumen print, 1865
2 1/4 in. x 3 5/8 in. (57 mm x 92 mm) image size
Bequeathed by Francis Needham, 1971
Photographs Collection
NPG Ax129166
Sittersback to top
- Frances Elizabeth Jocelyn (née Cowper), Viscountess Jocelyn (1820-1880), Courtier and amateur photographer; wife of Robert Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn; daughter of 5th Earl Cowper. Sitter associated with 14 portraits.
- Hon. Alice Maria Jocelyn (1843-1867), Daughter of Viscount Jocelyn and granddaughter of 3rd Earl of Roden. Sitter in 2 portraits.
- Hon. Frederick Spencer Jocelyn (1852-1871), Royal courtier; son of Viscount Jocelyn and grandson of 3rd Earl of Roden. Sitter in 2 portraits.
- Robert Jocelyn, 4th Earl of Roden (1846-1880), Soldier and courtier. Sitter in 4 portraits.
- Edith (née Jocelyn), Viscountess Sudley (1845-1871), Wife of Viscount Sudley (later 5th Earl of Arran); daughter of Viscount Jocelyn; granddaughter of 3rd Earl of Roden. Sitter in 2 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Unknown photographer, Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 6582 portraits.
Events of 1865back to top
Current affairs
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson is the first female to be awarded a doctor's licence. She is also involved in collecting signatures for the Manchester Suffrage Committee, the first suffrage organisation, formed this year. John Stuart Mill was also elected to parliament this year on the platform of women's suffrage.Palmerston dies in October, and is replaced as leader of the Liberal government by his Foreign Secretary, Lord Russell.
Art and science
Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland is published, inspired by Carroll's relationship (as Oxford don Charles Dodgson) with his friend Henry George Liddell's daughter Alice.Matthew Arnold publishes the first series of Essays in Criticism, a defining text in the development of English literature as an academic discipline.
International
In the American civil war, Robert E. Lee surrenders the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant, leading to the surrender of the Confederacy's remaining field armies. A few days later, US President Abraham Lincoln is shot dead by Confederate sympathiser John Wilkes Booth. Later this year slavery is officially abolished after years of fierce campaigning. In response, the first branch of the Ku Klux Klan is founded on Christmas Eve.Comments back to top
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