Algernon Gallery

Algernon Blackwood & Alfred Taylor, WW1

Algernon Henry Blackwood (1869-1951), English author and playwright, particularly known for his supernatural fiction and ghost stories, pictured here on the right with the Punch artist and comic illustrator, Alfred Taylor. The Tatler reports that Blackwood was working with the Red Cross at Rouen as a searcher for missing men. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography does not mention this episode in Blackwood's life, but does note that he worked for British intelligence as an undercover agent in Switzerland during some of the war. Date: 1918

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Fifinella: A Fairy Frolic by Basil Dean and Barry Jackson

Fifinella: A Fairy Frolic by Basil Dean and Barry Jackson. First produced at the Repertory Theatre, Birmingham, on 26th December 1912, this image is promoting Mr Algernon Greig's production running for four weeks at The Gaiety Theatre in Manchester starting on 26th December 1913. Date: 1913

© The Michael Diamond Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

1910s, 1913, Algernon, Birmingham, Entertainment, Fairies, Fairy, Greig, Owl, Owls, Play, Plays, Popular, Production, Repertory, Stage, Theatre, Theatrical

Henry Percy, Earl Percy

Henry Algernon George Percy, Earl Percy (1871 - 1909), Lord Warkworth until 1899, was a British Conservative politician. He held political office under Arthur Balfour as Under-Secretary of State for India and Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs before his early death in 1909. Date: 1897

© Mary Evans Picture Library

1897, Affairs, Algernon, British, Conservative, Earl, Foreign, George, Henry, Historical, History, Lord, Percy, Politician, Politics, Warkworth