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WALES, PRINCE OF
Neg No: GP 7971 CK G/L
Neg. Size: 12"x15"
Neg. Date: 11-3-1921

Subject: Archibald Campbell, 4th Baron Blythswood, HRH The Prince of Wales and others at Blythswood House, Renfrewshire.

Archibald Campbell, 4th Baron Blythswood, HRH The Prince of Wales and others at Blythswood House, Renfrewshire.

Sitters: (left to right)

Front row:

(1) Miss Viola Meeking.
(2) Miss Speir.
(3) Archibald Campbell, 4th Baron Blythswood (1870-1929).
(4) HRH Prince of Wales, later Duke of Windsor (1894-1972).
(5) Evelyn, Baroness Blythswood, née Fletcher ( ); m. (1895) 4th Baron Blythswood.
(6) Rear-Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey (later Admiral) (1872-1949), Comptroller and Treasurer to the Prince of Wales 1920-1936

2nd row:

(7) Lieut. P. Llewellyn (Welsh Guards), later (?).
(8) Mrs William Hodge Coats, (formerly Mrs B.E.M. Kerr).
(9) William Hodge Coats (1866-1928); Deputy Lieutenant, County Renfrew; Chairman J. & P. Coats Ltd.
(10) Hon. Olive Campbell, later Hon. Mrs Laurence Paul Methuen-Campbell (d. 1940); daughter of 4th Baron Blythswood; m. (1927) Hon. Lawrence Paul Methuen.(1)
(11) Thomas Coats, 2nd Baron Glentanar (1894-1971).

Date: 8-10 March 1921.

Occasion: Luncheon party for the Prince of Wales, guest at Blythswood House during the Royal visit to Glasgow, 8-10 March 1921.

Location: Blythswood House, Renfrewshire, Scotland.

Descr: FL group, exterior.

Photographer: Lafayette Ltd.

No of poses: 1 (see also neg, no. G. 7970)

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Provenance: Pinewood Studios; acquired 1989.

References:

Biog: (Prince of Wales) Dictionary of National Biography; Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd ed., Burke's Royal Families of the World, Vol 1, London, 1977, p 311-12; (Others) Burke's Peerage; L.G. Pine, The New Exinct Peerage 1884-1971, London, 1972; Who's Who; The Tatler, 23 March 1921, p 382; The Scots Pictorial, 3 February 1923, p 103.

Occasion: The Times, especially 7 March 1921, p 12 & 12 March 1921, p 13a.

Reproduced: The Bystander, 23 March 1921, p 628; The Tatler, 23 March 1921, p 382; The Gentlewoman, 26 March 1921, p 443.

1. "He assumed the additional surname of 'Campbell' after 'Methuen' but discontinued same by Deed Poll, June 1969." (Burke's Peerage).