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BIDDULPH,
GENERAL SIR ROBERT
Neg. No: (GP) (00025) Neg. Size: 15"x12" Neg. Date: 19-02-1901
Sitter: General Sir Robert Biddulph (1835-1918).
Biog: General in the army; Colonel Commanding Royal Artillery; High Commissioner at Cyprus, 1879-86; Director General of military education, 1888-93; Governor of Gibralter, 1893-1900. Date: 19 February 1901. Occasion: - Location: The Lafayette studio, 179 New Bond Street, London. Descr: TQL standing. Costume: Full Dress uniform1 with mourning band, General. Orders, Decorations & Medals: Collar, Badge and Star of a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (military division) [G.C.B cr. 3 June 1899]; Collar, Badge and Star of a Knight Grand Cross of The Order of St. Michael and St. George [G.C.M.G. cr. 29 May 1886]; Queen Victoria Jubilee Medal 1887 with 1897 bar; Crimea Medal 1854-56 with three clasps 'Alma', 'Balaclava' & 'Sebastopol'; India Mutiny Medal 1857-60 with clasp; Second China War Medal 1857-60 with two clasps 'Taku Fort 1860' & 'Pekin 1860'; Badge of the Order of Medjidjie [Ottoman Empire]; Turkish Crimea Medal 1855. Furniture & Props: Painted backdrop.
Evidence of photographer at work: - No of poses: 1. see also:
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Biog: Dictionary of National Biography; Who's Who; The Army List, 1901; The Times, 20 November 1918, p 19d. Occasion: - Costume: Dress Regulations for the Army, London, 1900. Orders, Decorations & Medals: (The Order of the Bath, The Order of St. Michael and St. George) Burke's Peerage; (Queen Victoria Jubilee Medal 1887) Howard N. Cole, Coronation and Royal Commemorative Medals 1887-1977, London, 1977; (Order of Medjidjie) R. Werlich, Orders and Decoration of All Nations, Washington 1990. (Others) E.C. Joslin, A.R. Litherland and B.T. Simpkin, British Battles and Medals, London, 1988. Reproduced: -
Acknowledgements: (Orders etc) David Bownes.
1 Uniform worn with epaulette bows to hold collars in place. |
