Probably Eveleen Myers (née Tennant); Leopold Hamilton Myers; Silvia Constance Myers at Leckhampton House, Cambridge
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Probably Eveleen Myers (née Tennant); Leopold Hamilton Myers; Silvia Constance Myers at Leckhampton House, Cambridge
by Unknown photographer
albumen print, circa 1884
5 1/2 in. x 6 3/4 in. (140 mm x 173 mm) overall
Purchased, 1991
Photographs Collection
NPG Ax68358
Sittersback to top
- Eveleen Myers (née Tennant) (1856-1937), Photographer. Sitter associated with 30 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 203 portraits. Identify
- Leopold Hamilton Myers (1881-1944), Novelist. Sitter associated with 85 portraits. Identify
- Silvia Constance Myers (1883-1957), Daughter of Eveleen Myers. Sitter associated with 44 portraits, Artist or producer of 1 portrait. Identify
Artistback to top
- Unknown photographer, Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 6582 portraits.
Placesback to top
- Place made and portrayed: United Kingdom: England, Cambridgeshire (sitters' home, Leckhampton House, Cambridge)
Subjects & Themesback to top
Events of 1884back to top
Current affairs
The Third Reform Act further reduces the financial threshold for voters, extending the franchise to all householders in the counties, achieving uniformity with those in the boroughs, and effectively doubling the electorate from 2.5 million to just under 5 million.Foundation of the socialist group, the Fabian Society. The group quickly grows in size, including members Eleanor Marx, George Bernard Shaw and Beatrice Webb.
Art and science
Under the editorship of James Murray, the Oxford English Dictionary begins publication, with the tenth and final volume appearing 1928. The idea for a historical dictionary of the English language had been conceived by members of the Philological Society in 1857, including Frederick Furnivall, and some 800 voluntary readers contributed to the immense project.International
Germany annexes Southwest Africa, Togoland, the Cameroons, and Tanganyike, and launches the scramble for Africa as it becomes the third largest colonial power in the continent. Bismarck also invites the European powers to a West Africa conference in Berlin, which, carving up the map of Africa between them, regulates colonial practice, frees trade and prohibits slavery, formally marking the start of the New Imperialism which would flourish until World War I.Comments back to top
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