Ruby Erskine (née de la Rue), Sir George Watkin Eben James Erskine and wedding party

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by Lafayette
whole-plate film negative, 7 January 1930
Given by Pinewood Studios via Victoria and Albert Museum, 1989
Photographs Collection
NPG x184775

Artistback to top

Lafayette (Lafayette Ltd) (active 1880-1962), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 6907 portraits.

Sittersback to top

Diana de la Rue (1914-1998), Daughter of Sir Evelyn de le Rue. Sitter in 2 portraits.
Greselda de la Rue, Daughter of Sir Evelyn de le Rue. Sitter in 2 portraits.
Sir George Watkin Eben James Erskine (1899-1965), General; son of George Elphinstone Erksine. Sitter in 6 portraits.
Ruby Erskine (née de la Rue) (died 1974), Wife of George Watkin Eben James Erskine; daughter of Sir Evelyn de le Rue. Sitter in 5 portraits.
Myrtle Francklin. Sitter in 2 portraits.
William Henry Ewart Gott (1897-1942), Lieutenant-General. Sitter in 2 portraits.
Diana Milles-Lade (1919-1993), Daughter of Hon. Henry Augustus Milles. Sitter in 2 portraits.
Elizabeth Josephine Nall (1920-2004), Daughter of Sir Joseph Nall, 1st Bt. Sitter in 2 portraits.
Sir Michael Joseph Nall, 2nd Bt (1921-2001), Son of Sir Joseph Nall, 1st Bt. Sitter in 2 portraits.
Mona Radcliffe (née de la Rue), Wife of Edward Copleston Radcliffe; daughter of Sir Evelyn de le Rue. Sitter in 2 portraits.
Irene Myrtle (née Francklin), Lady Starkey (died 1965), Wife of Sir William Randle Starkey. Sitter associated with 2 portraits.
Lady Cynthia Williams (née North) (1908-1940), Wife of Max Williams; daughter of 8th Earl of Guilford. Sitter in 2 portraits.

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Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (12 Berkeley Square, London)

Events of 1930back to top

Current affairs

Amy Johnson is the first woman to fly solo to Australia. She flew the 11,000 miles from Croydon to Darwin in a De Havilland Gipsy Moth named Jason and won the Harmon Trophy as well as a CBE for her achievement. She went on to break a number of other flying records, and died while serving in the Air Transport Auxiliary in 1941.

Art and science

Noel Coward's play, Private Lives is first performed. The original run starred Gertrude Lawrence and Laurence Olivier as well as Coward himself. Private Lives became Coward's most enduringly successful play.

International

Gandhi leads the Salt March. The march to the coast was a direct protest against the British monopoly on the sale of salt and inspired hordes of Indians to follow him and adopt his methods of Satyagraha (non-violent resistance to the British rule of India).
Stalin orders the 'liquidation of the kulaks (wealthy farmers) as a class' in a violent attempt to centralise control of agriculture and collectivise farming.

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