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Sir Hugh Percy Allen

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Sir Hugh Percy Allen

by Philip Brain
half-plate glass negative, 1920s
Given by the Brain Family, before 1985
Photographs Collection
NPG x32619

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  • Philip Brain, Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 19 portraits, Sitter in 2 portraits.

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Current affairs

The Government of Ireland Act (Fourth Home Rule Bill) partitions Ireland into the Irish Free State with a devolved parliament in Dublin and Northern Ireland with a devolved parliament in Belfast.
The Communist Party of Great Britain is founded in London, uniting a number of independent socialist and Marxist parties into a single, united party.

Art and science

Queen Alexandra unveils a monument to Edith Cavell in St Martin's Place opposite the National Portrait Gallery. The English nurse was executed in Germany for helping hundreds of allied soldiers to cross the border from occupied Belgium to the neutral Netherlands.
George V officially opens the Imperial War Museum at the Crystal Palace.

International

The Kapp Putsch threatens the newly formed Weimar Republic. In defiance of the Treaty of Versailles, the leaders of the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt refused to disband and marched on Berlin, occupying it on the 13th March. With the general army refusing to defend the city, the government fled to Stuttgart. The rebellion, however, failed after the workers joined a general strike, disabling their plans.

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Margaret Wilson

13 July 2019, 11:10

My mother, Mary Ellen Jessie Jenkins, a dressmaker, told me that around the year 1922 Sir Hugh Percy proposed marriage to her. Foolishly she had met a handsome tram driver and married him in 1923. What a mistake that was!
I am now 88years old, the widow of the Scottish composer Professor Thomas Wilson.