Hamilton Gallery

Lady Dufferin, Wife of 8th Viceroy of India

Hariot Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava (Lady Dufferin, 1843-1936), wife of Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, 8th Viceroy of India, 1884-1888. Lady Dufferin, as Vicereine of India, accompanied her husband and made her own name there as a pioneer in the medical training of women. Her travel writings and photographs, in addition to her medical work, challenge traditional assumptions about the role of women in colonial life. Date: circa 1880s

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Earl and Countess Spencer

Albert Edward John Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer (23 May 1892 9 June 1975), known formally as The Hon Albert Spencer until 1910 and from then until 1922 as Viscount Althorp, and less formally as "Jack" Spencer, pictured with his wife, Countess Spencer, formerly Cynthia Elinor Beatrix Hamilton, daughter of the 3rd Due of Abercorn. They were the paternal grandparents of Diana, Princess of Wales and great grandparents of Prince William of Wales Picture on the occasion of the visit of the American Bar Association to Sulgrave Manor, Northamptonshire, the home of the Washington family. Date: 1924

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Bardelys The Magnificent, by Hamilton and Sabatini

Bardelys The Magnificent, by Henry Hamilton and Rafael Sabatini, from Sabatinis novel (1906). First produced at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham, August 1910, then the Globe Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, February 1911. Lewis Waller (1860-1915) was the leading matinee idol of the day. Other cast members were Lottie Venne, Madge Titheradge and William Haviland. The play is set in France in the reign of King Louis XIII, the period of The Three Musketeers. Date: 1911

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