Mary Danvers Stocks (née Brinton), Baroness Stocks
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Mary Danvers Stocks (née Brinton), Baroness Stocks
by Ray Strachey
oil on board, 1925-1937
20 in. x 14 1/2 in. (508 mm x 368 mm)
Given by Barbara Strachey (Hultin, later Halpern), 1999
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NPG D231
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- Mary Danvers Stocks (née Brinton), Baroness Stocks (1891-1975), Women's activist and academic administrator. Sitter associated with 5 portraits.
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- Rachel Pearsall Conn ('Ray') Strachey (née Costelloe) (1887-1940), Feminist activist, artist and writer. Artist or producer associated with 99 portraits, Sitter associated with 64 portraits.
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Current affairs
On the advice of the Governor of the Bank of England, Montagu Norman, Winston Churchill returns British currency to the Gold Standard. This caused deflation across the empire as the value of the pound returned to the pre-war gold price, leading to unemployment, the miners' strike and the general strike in 1926.Art and science
John Logie Baird transmits the first television images of a ventriloquist's dummy. The BBC used Logie Baird's invention from 1927 until 1935 when they adopted EMI-Marconi's superior electronic scanning system.Virginia Woolf publishes her innovative 'stream of consciousness' novel, Mrs Dalloway, which chronicles a day in the life of the protagonist through her interior monologue.
International
Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs represents Britain at the Locarno Treaties. Lorcano secured the post-war territorial settlement and established pledges of non-aggression between various European Nations. The 'spirit of Locarno' helped secure Germany's admission into the League of Nations in 1926. Chamberlain was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his part in the peace agreement.Comments back to top
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Robert B. Todd
02 December 2020, 20:25
Ray Strachey (nee Costelloe) was the second wife of the cryptologist Oliver Strachey, the brother of Elinor Strachey (and of Lytton). Elinor married the barrister James Rendel, son of the engineer Sir Alexander Rendel. James's sister Constance married Roland Danvers Brinton MD, and Mary (later Stocks) was their daughter. Ray Strachey therefore painted the portrait of her sister-in-law Elinor's sister-in-law's daughter. Genealogically remote but ideologically close, Ray and Mary were both suffragists and campaigners for women's rights.