Randall Thomas Davidson, Baron Davidson of Lambeth ('Prelate of the Garter')

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Randall Thomas Davidson, Baron Davidson of Lambeth ('Prelate of the Garter')

by Sir Leslie Ward
lithograph, published 1901
Purchased, 1994
Reference Collection
NPG D4406

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Artistback to top

  • Sir Leslie Ward (1851-1922), 'Spy'; caricaturist and portrait painter; son of Edward Matthew Ward. Artist or producer associated with 1617 portraits, Sitter in 9 portraits.

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  • Clerk, Honor, The Sitwells, 1994 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 14 October - 22 January 1995), p. 24 Read entry

    Randall Davidson (1848-1930) was resident chaplain to Archbishop Tait, and on marrying the Archbishop's daughter was inevitably drawn into the Sitwell orbit. He became Dean of Windsor and Queen Victoria's domestic chaplain in 1883, Bishop of Rochester in 1891 and Bishop of Winchester in 1895. During his time as Archbishop of Canterbury (1903-1928), a flow of Sitwell relations visited Lambeth Palace, including the youthful Edith and Osbert, who remembered a particularly austere dinner of 1914 (lemonade and cutlets) disrupted by suffragetts directed to the Palace by the Bishop of London.

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Current affairs

Queen Victoria dies on 23 January. She is succeeded to the throne by her son, Prince Edward, aged 60, who reigned until his death in 1910. The census results of this year show the huge changes that took place in Britain during her reign, revealing that the population of Britain had doubled in the past 50 years, to 38 million.

Art and science

The start of Pablo Picasso's Blue Period, in which he produces a series of paintings dominated by the colour blue and melancholic mood. Significantly, the period marks the transition in Picasso's style from classicism to abstract art.
Beatrix Potter privately publishes The Tale of Peter Rabbit after it is rejected by six publishers.

International

The six colonies of Australia become a federation, forming the Commonwealth of Australia. Australia remains a Commonwealth Realm. This year Australia also passes the Immigration Restriction Act, which limits immigration to Australia and forms the basis of the White Australia policy, a collection of historical legislation and policies designed to restrict non-white immigration to Australia between 1830-1973, although reforms against the policy were introduced in the 1940s.

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