(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936); Author; Lord Rector of the University of St. Andrews 1922-1925.

Dr. James Colquhoun Irvine, later Sir James Colquhoun Irvine (1877-1952); Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St. Andrews.

Stanley Baldwin, later 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (1867-1947); Prime Minister 1923-1924, 1924-1929 and 1935-1937.⁽¹⁾

Date: 10 October 1923.

Occasion: Installation of Rudyard Kipling as Lord Rector of the University of St. Andrews; conferral of honorary LLD degrees on Stanley Baldwin (the Prime Minster), and others.

Location: University of St Andrews.

Descr: FL standing.

Costume: Academic Robes.

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No of poses: 1 (see also G 8351 & G? 8353).

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Biog: (R. Kipling) Dictionary of National Biography; Who's Who; The Times, 20 January 1936, pp 13c & 19a; (S. Baldwin) Dictionary of National Biography; Burke's Peerage; Who's Who; The Times, 15 December 1947, pp 4f & 6a; (Principal Irvine) Who's Who.

Occasion: The Times, 11 October 1923, p 14d; The Queen, 18 October 1923, p 461; The Illustrated London News, 20 October 1923, p 694; The Scots Pictorial, 20 October 1923, pp 372-373.

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Reproduced: (Large group portrait) The Scots Pictorial, 20 October 1923, p 372.

1. Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin were first cousins.