Mann Gallery

The General Strike - Government leaders

Government leaders during the General Strike: Ministers and Commissioners. 1. Chief Civil Commissioner: Sir W. Mitchell-Thomson, 2. Principal Chief Assistant Commissioner, Mr. A. B. Lowry, 3. Civil Commissioner, London and Home Counties Division: Major W. Cope, 4. Civil Commissioner, Eastern Division: Major Sir Philip Sassoon, 5. Coal-owner's representatives leaving Downing Street: (Left to right) Messrs. W. A. Lee, Evan Williams, Edward Mann, and Guthrie. 6. Civil Commissioner for the North Midland Division: Captain H. Douglas King, 7. The Members of the Coal Commission: (Left to right) Mr. Kenneth Lee, Sir William Beveridge, Sir Herbert Samuel, (Chairman) and Sir Herbert Lawrence. 8. Minister of Labour: Sir Arthur Steel Maitland. 9. Civil Commissioner, Midland Division: Lt. Col. the Hon. G.F. Stanley. 11. Civil Commissioner, North Eastern Division: Captain D. H. Hacking. 12. Parliamentary Secretary to the Department of Mines: Col. G.R. Lane-Fox, 13. Civil Commissioner, South Midland Division: Major Earl Winterton, 14. The Home Secretary: Sir William Joynson-Hicks. In support of a strike by coal miners over the issue of threatened wage cuts, the Trades Union Congress called a General Strike in early May 1926. The strike only involved certain key industrial sectors (docks, electricity, gas, railways) but, in the face of well-organised government emergency measures and lack of real public support, it collapsed after nine days

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Lady Queensberry with her children and Hon. Mrs. Rose

Cathleen Sabine Mann (1896-1959), Artist; former wife of 11th Marquess of Queensberry, and later wife of J. R. Follett; daughter of Harrington Mann with her children David Harrington Angus Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry (1929-), Artist and professor and Lady Jane Katherine Cory-Wright (n饠Douglas) (1926-2007), Wife of David Arthur Cory-Wright; daughter of 11th Marquess of Queensberry. The portrait in the lower right corner shows the Hon. Mrs. Rose.
1936

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Cathleen Mann aka Marchioness of Queensberry

Cathleen Mann (1896-1959), Artist; second wife of Francis A. Kelhead, 11th Marquess of Queensbury; daughter of Harrington Mann. Exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Pictured around the time she had held a success show at the Lefevre Gallery. Date: 1938

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