Engagement Collection (page 2)

Major John Pitcairn entering Lexington in the early morning of 19 April 1775, faced with about 80 Lexington militiamen, marking the first military engagement of the American Revolutionary War

Comic postcard, Men chat in the street Date: 20th century

Artwork suggestion for Party Tableware - Two Cherubs
Artwork suggestion for Party Tableware - serviette ring place cards designed for paper serviettes - Wedding or Engagement - Two Cherubs alongside a heart. Date: circa 1937

Comic postcard, Two cats at a window - Any engagement tonight? Date: 1913

Edythe A. Baker (1899 - 1971), American boogie-woogie pianist, wife of Gerard (" Pop" ) d Erlanger. Date: 1927

Beatrice Lillie, popular stage actress and entertainer, pictured in her dressing room at the Prince of Wales Theatre where she was starring in Bran Pie with her fiance, Robert Peel

Front cover of The Sketch featuring engaged couple, actress Frances Doble, and sir Anthony Lindsay-Hogg wearing rather bizarre and ill-advised costume

The Dancers of Variety in 1928: The Lorraine Sisters returned to America to do vaudeville work after long engagement in Paris and Europe Date: 1928

Advert for Denishawn School of Dancing and courses for fall of 1930 including a three month engagement by Margaret Wallmann of the Mary Wigman School in Berlin Date: 1930

Memorial to 15th Battalion Canadian Highlanders
This bronze plaque, mounted in a brick plinth, records the part played by the 15th on the Gravenstafel Ridge during the Second Battle of Ypres (the Gas Attacks)

Catherine Kitty Brigid Kiernan (1893-1945), pictured at home after the announcement of her engagement to Irish revolutionary leader and Chairman of the Provisional Government, Michael Collins

Nannie Langhorne Shaw pictured in The Sketch at the time of her engagement to Waldorf Astor. Her sister Irene was married to the artist Charles Dana Gibson

Miss Billie Lawford, daughter of Lady Gertrude Lawford, pictured in The Bystander at the time of her engagement to Kenneth Baird. Date: 1924

Engagement of the Beaton sisters
An impression by society sketch portraitist Pat Charles of the two recently engaged sisters of Cecil Beaton with their fiancÚ│« Nancy Beaton is seen with Sir Hugh Smiley

The future Lady Warwick, Miss Margaret Whigham
Portrait of Margaret Whigham, later Mrs Charles Sweeny, and then the Duchess of Argyll, pictured in The Tatler at the time of her engagement to the Earl of Warwick

Miss Sylvia Storey, Countess Poulett
Countess Poulett, formerly stage star Miss Sylvia Storey, photographed after the announcement of her engagement to Major Percy Hansen

Cartoon portrait, Prince Henry of Battenberg (1858-1896), who had just become engaged to Princess Beatrice, youngest child of Queen Victoria (they married in the summer of 1885)

Norah Blaney and her fiance Basil Hughes, 1932
A famous stage favourite and her fiancÚ║áMiss Norah Blaney and Mr Basil Hughes. Date: 1932

Princess Ena and King Alfonso of Spain - Palace of Miramar
Princess Ena and King Alfonso of Spain with (behind) Queen Christina of Spain and Princess Beatrice (Princess Beatrice of Battenberg) outside the Palace of Miramar, Biarritz, 1906. Date: 1906

A Honeymoon Group - a new couple with Mother. circa 1910s

Lady Evelyn Graham, by Madame Yevonde
Lady Evelyn Graham, photographed on her engagement to Mark Patrick of the Diplomatic Service. Her marriage to Captain Miles Graham had been dissolved. Date: 1930

Princess Mary and Lord Dalkeith, 1919
Princess Mary(later Countess of Harewood) and Lord Dalkeith pictured with her brothers Prince George(Duke of Kent) and Prince Albert(later George VI) on horseback, 1919

Sanish Troops attacking San Domingo Soldiers
Engagement between Spanish troops and San Domingo islanders in the pass of Monte Christi. From the top ridges of the pass Spanish soldiers fire at San Domingo forces

The Battle of Pacocha - The British Attack Peruvian Ship
The Battle of Pacocha in the Pacific - an engagement between the HMS Shah and HMS Amethyst against the rebel Peruvian ship Huascar off Ilo, on 29th May 1877

Hon Nancy Freeman-Mitford, novelist daughter of Lord Redesdale, at the time of her engagement to Hon Peter Rennell Rodd, second son of Lord Rennell. Date: 1933

Front cover, Hon Phyllis Astor on her engagement to Lord Willoughby de Eresby, seen here at Cliveden. Date: 12 July 1933

Felicia Stewart (later Felicia Pepys Cockerell)(1890-1970), featured in The Sketch on the occasion of her engagement to Major W. Headfort Brook

Sketch - Engagement of Margaret Whigham & Earl of Warwick
Front cover of The Sketch magazine reporting on the engagement of popular debutante, Margaret Whigham ( the most talked-of, photographed, and paragraphed debutante ) to the Earl of Warwick

Social celebrities at a dinner in Cairo, 1932
Groups chatting and pulling faces while at dinner at the newly-opened Embassy Club in Cairo. Significant at the far end of the table is Miss Margaret Whigham (later Mrs Charles Sweeny)

Illustration in The Etiquette of To-Day - The Arrival
Black and white illustration entitled The Arrival of an elegant couple in evening dress arriving for a dinner engagement, from The Etiquette of To-Day edited by Flora Klickmann

Patricia Marjorie Bartley. elder daughter of Sir Charles and Lady Bartley, of Swanbourne, Buckinghamshire. Miss Bartley is included on a page of engagement announcements as she was soon to marry

Mr John A. Haskell and Miss Dorothea Alabaster, 1912
Mr John A. Haskell of Calcutta and Miss Dorothea Alabaster, pictured together in The Sketch at the time of their engagement.Miss Dorothea Alabaster was the daughter of the late Sir Chaloner Alabaster

Lord Howes Engagement with the French Fleet, 1 June 1794. 1794

Engagement of British Fleet and Spanish Armada
Engagement of the British Fleet and the Spanish Armada off the Isle of Wight, 25 July 1588. 1588

Miss Ruth Primrose
Ruth Alice Hannah Mary Wood (nee Primrose), Countess of Halifax (1916-1989) on the front cover of The Tatler. Her engagement with Hon. Charles Wood is announced in the caption. 1936

Rohays Burnett
Elizabeth Rohays Mary (nÚÑáBurnett), Lady Boyd-Rochfort (1916-1993), Former wife of Hon. Henry Kerr Auchmuty Cecil, and later wife of Sir Cecil Boyd-Rochfort; daughter of Sir James Lauderdale Gilbert

Betrothal of Duke of York later King George VI and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (The Queen Mother) at Glamis Castle

The second engagement of the Mexican War requires the Americans to charge the strongly-held Mexican position. The dragoons, led by Captain May, do the job. Date: 9 May 1846

WW1 - Aerial View of the Dardanelles Battlefields, Turkey
WW1 - Aerial View of the Dardanelles Battlefield theatre, Turkey on 18th March 1915. 1915

Duke and Duchess of York visiting Docklands - April 1924
The Duke and Duchess of York visiting Docklands in April 1924. This picture shows the Duchess (1900-2002) (later Queen Elizabeth)

Duchess of York at the Royal Overseas League Garden Party
Elizabeth, Duchess of York (1900-2002) (later Elizabeth, the Queen Mother) at the Royal Overseas League Garden Party in the gardens of the Royal Botanic Society in Regents Park in July, 1923

Grand Prince Vladimir and his fiancee
Grand Prince Vladimir, brother of Tsar Alexander II, pictured with his future wife, Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin at the time of their engagement in 1874

Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra 1862
Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra (1844 - 1925), consort to King Edward VII, Alexandra of Denmark. Celebrating the engagement to Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII

Royal Highness the Prince of Wales 1862
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII (1841 - 1910), King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910

Engagement Portrait of the Mountbattens
The official engagement portrait of Louis Mountbatten, Ist Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979) and Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley (1901-1960), daughter of Wilfred William Ashley. Date: 1922

The Duchess of York (later Elizabeth, the Queen Mother) (1900-2002). Date: circa 1933

The Duke and Duchess of York leaving Maitland, NSW, Australia. Date: 1927

Mr Charles Sweeney and Miss Margaret Whigham
Engagement of American golfer Charles Sweeney to society darling Miss Margaret Whigham in November 1932. As Mrs Charles Sweeney, Margaret was feted and even name checked by Cole Porter in the song

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