Sybil Gallery

Children and grandchildren of Duke of Buccleuch

A group at the celebrations for the seventy-ninth birthday of the Duke of Buccleuch at Langholm Lodge, Dumfrieshire, with his children and grandchildren gathered together. From left The Hon. Joan Brand, Lady Hampden, Hon. Barbara Brand (on her knee), Lady Alice Scott (kneeling centre), Lady Constance Cairns nursing her baby girl, Miss Helen Cairns, Lady Sybil Scott (on cushion), Lady Marjorie Scott and the Hon. Thomas Brand, the future Viscount Hampden - plus dog! Lady Alice Scott would marry Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester in 1935, becoming Duchess of Gloucester. Date: 1910

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Kultur At Home by Rudolf Besier and Sybil Spottiswoode

Promotional postcard for Kultur at Home by Rudolf Besier and Sybil Spottiswoode. First produced at the Court Theatre, 11th March 1916. A superb example of First World War anti-German feeling. Allied propaganda played up the contrast between Germanys claim to Kultur and its militarism. The German eagle stands on books by General Bernhardi and the nationalist historian, Treitschke. Date: 1916

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Wives of four awarded officers, WW1

Four wives of awarded officers during the First World War. From top left, Lady Sybil Grant, the elder daughter of Lord Rosebery and wife of Major Charles John Cecil Grant of the Coldstream Guards who was on Headquarters Staff and made a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order. Top right, Viscountess Gort, daughter of Mr George Medlicott Vereker married her cousin, Viscount Gort in 1911 who was a Captain in the Grenadier Guards, on the HQ staff and had been mentioned in despatches by Sir John French. Bottom left is Countess Gleichen, whose husband, Count Gleichen was on Headquarters Staff, and had been appointed Major-General for distinguished services in the field. Before her marriage she was the Hon. Sylvia Edwardes, Maid-of-Honour to Queen Victoria and Queen Alexandra. Bottom right, Lady Helen Freeman-Mitford, whose husband, the Hon. Clement Bertram Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford, eldest son of Baron Redesdale (who had also been awarded the DSO). She was the daughter of the sixth Earl of Airlie and was the aunt, by marriage, of the Mitford sisters. Date: 1915

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