The marriage of Capt. Hugh Brownlow, to Miss Susan Fielding, wedding group with best man, pages and bridesmaids.

HIBBERT, MRS. H.B. (MISS SUSAN FIELDING)

Neg. No: (SF) L 121236A

Neg. Size: 8½" x 6½"

Neg. Date: 31-05-1926

Subject: The marriage of Capt. Hugh Brownlow, to Miss Susan Fielding, wedding group with best man, pages and bridesmaids.

Sitters: (Bride-groom) Hugh Brownlow Hibbert (1893-1988), Captain The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, DSO (1940).

(Bride) Mrs. Hugh Brownlow Hibbert, née Susan Louisa Mary Fielding (1906-1975), only daughter of Percy Fielding, of Beckley Park, Oxford, grandson of 7th Earl of Denbigh; m. (1926) Capt. Hugh Brownlow Hibbert.

(Best man) A.F.S. Douglas ( ).

(Pages) Master Anthony Thomson and Master Colin Bradley-Williams.

(Bridesmaids) Miss Anita Mary Fielding, later Mrs. Basil A.T. Mostyn (1907- ), 2nd daughter of Lt.-Col. Rowland Charles Fielding, DSO, of Stoke House, Slough, grandson of 7th Earl of Denbigh; m. (1931) Basil Antony Trevor Mostyn, later 13th Bt., [div. 1949]; Miss Margaret Mary Fielding, later Mrs. Basil P.T.H. Fielding (1908- ), 3rd daughter of Lt.-Col. Rowland Charles Fielding, DSO, of Stoke House, Slough, grandson of 7th Earl of Denbigh; m. (1931) her cousin Basil Percy Terence Henry Fielding; Miss Alice Buchan ( ); Miss Nell Joshua ( ); Miss Ruth Barlow ( ); Miss Daphne Davidson ( ), daughter of Margaret Agnes Davidson, née Fielding, DBE (1918) and Sir Walter Edward Davidson KCMG, Gov. of NSW and great-grandaughter of 7th Earl of Denbigh; Miss Myrtle Bourke ( ).

Date: 31 May 1926.

Occasion: The marriage, 31 May 1926, at Holy Trinity, Sloane Street, London.

Location: Hans Crescent Hotel.

Descr: FL.

Costume: (Bride) "A gown of ivory georgette over pink chiffon, embroidered with silver (...); a train of pink georgette veiled with white, with a motif of silver embroidery at the end. A veil of old family lace was arranged beneath a chaplet of orange blossom and fell with a second veil of tulle over the train".

(Pages) "Long blue silk knickers with white frilled shirts and pink sashes tied at the side".

(Bridesmaids) "Powder-blue georgette over rose-pink with narrow bands of silver galon at the waist; blue crinoline hats were turned up with clusters of pink roses and had long streamers at the side" (see: The Times, 1 July 1926, p 17c).

Jewellery: -

Accessories: (Bride) A bouquet of white roses; (Bridesmaids) Sheafs of delphiniums.

Furniture & Props: -

Photographer: Lafayette Ltd., 160 New Bond Street, London.

Evidence of photographer at work: -

No of related negatives: 6.

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Provenance: Pinewood Studios; acquired 1989.

References:

Biog: (H.B. Hibbert) Who's Who; (Mrs. H.B. Hibbert & Misses Anita Fielding, Mary Fielding & Daphne Davidson) Burke's Peerage.

Occasion: The Times, 1 June 1926, p 17c; The Gentlewoman, 12 June 1926, p 872.

Costume: The Times, 1 June 1926, p 17c.

Jewellery: -

Accessories: The Times, 1 June 1926, p 17c.

Reproduced: (version, with groom) The Gentlewoman, 12 June 1926, p 872.

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