MEYSEY-THOMPSON, SIR HENRY
Neg. No: GP (L) 1347 B
Neg. Size: 15"x12"
Neg. Date: 03-07-1897

Sitter: Sir Henry Meysey Meysey-Thompson, 2nd Bt., of Kirby Hall, County York, later 1st and last Baron Knaresborough (1845-1929).

Biog: Secretary to William Gladstone (unpaid); Liberal-Unionist MP; Chairman, North-Eastern Railway Company; Director, Forth Bridge Railway Company; special interest in bimetallism.

Role: John de Witt.⁽¹⁾

Date: 2 July 1897.

Occasion: The Devonshire House Ball, 2 July 1897.

Location: Devonshire House, Piccadilly, London, W.

Descr: FL standing

Costume: Costume '...of deep red corded silk, lined with black and trimmed with cords of the same colour...' (The Court Journal, 10 July 1897, p 1249a).

Costume Supplier: -

Furniture & Props: Backdrop, painted to suggest the garden statuary at Devonshire House; studio Persian rug.

Evidence of photographer at work: Portable white reflector screen to left of plate.

No of poses: 1.

Lady Meysey-Thompson, later Baroness Knaresborough

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Biog: Burke's Peerage; Who's Who; L.G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971, London, 1972; The Times, 5 March 1929, p 11b.

Role: (John de Witt) Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball, July 2 1897: A Collection of Portraits in Costume of Some of the Guests, privately printed, 1899, p 157. (National Portrait Gallery Archives). (Gentleman of the period of Charles II) The Morning Post, 3 July 1897, p 8b; The Court Journal, 10 July 1897, p 1249a; The Gentlewoman, 10 July 1897, p 56a; (Cavalier) Lady's Pictorial, 10 July 1897, p 70c.

Occasion: Sophia Murphy, The Duchess of Devonshire's Ball, London, 1984.

Costume: The Morning Post, 3 July 1897, p 8b; The Court Journal, 10 July 1897, p 1249a; The Gentlewoman, 10 July 1897, p 56a; Lady's Pictorial, 10 July 1897, p 70c. 

Costume Supplier: -

Photography: The Daily Telegraph, 3 July 1897, p 9f; Black & White, 10 July 1897, p 38b.

Reproduced: (Version) Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball, July 2 1897: A Collection of Portraits in Costume of Some of the Guests, privately printed, 1899, p 157, (National Portrait Gallery Archives).