Dorothy Gallery

Dorothy Pilley, English climber in Glacier National Park

Dorothy Pilley Richards (1894 - 1986) was a prominent female mountaineer. She began climbing in Wales and joined the Fell and Rock Climbing Club. In the 1920s, she climbed extensively in the Alps, Britain, and North America after her marriage to Ivor Armstrong Richards. In 1928, she made the celebrated first ascent of the north ridge of the Dent Blanche, with Joseph Georges, Antoine Georges and her husband, which she described in her well-regarded memoir, Climbing Days (1935). Photograph in the Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News magazine's weekly Women in Sport feature. The magazine comments that, "She is light of build and very active. Those who climbed with her in the Lake District some years ago are enthusiastic about her ability for really hard and technically difficult work." Date: 1927

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1908 Olympic Ice Skaters

A montage of competitors who took part in the figure skating events at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. The event was held at the Prince's Skating Club in Knightsbridge. This was the first time a winter sport had been featured in the Olympic Games. It would be another sixteen years before the first Winter Olympics in Chamonix in1924. From left to right: 1. Nikolai Panin (later Panin-Kolomenkin) of Russia; 2. Madge Syers of Great Britain; 3. Dorothy Greenhough-Smith (Great Britain); 4. Per Thoren (Sweden); 5. R.Johansson (Sweden); 6. Ulrich Salkow (Sweden); 7. A. Cumming (GB); 8. and 9. James and Phyllis Johnson (GB); 10. E.Lycett (GB); 11. I.Brokaw (USA); 12. Anna Hubler (Germany) ; 13.Heinrich Burger (Germany); 14. E.Rendschmidt (Germany). Date: October 1908

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Dorothy and Violet Vivian

Page from The Tatler in 1902 featuring photographs of the Hon. Dorothy Vivian and her twin sister, the Hon. Violet Vivian, daughters of 3rd Baron Vivian and his wife, Louisa Alice Duff. Maid of honour to Queen Alexandra, Dorothy met Douglas Haig when he was a guest of King Edward VII at Windsor Castle and the pair married at the private chapel at Buckingham Palace in 1905.
1902

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