Sitter: Francis Charles Adelbert Needham, 4th Earl of Kilmorey (1883-1961), when Viscount Newry and Morne.

Biog: joined 1st Life Guards 1902; Lieut. 1904; Captain 1907-1911 & 1914-1918; commanding officer of the Ulster Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve; Vice-Admiral of Ulster; Lord-Lieutenant for Co. Down; Hereditary Abbot of Newry & Mourne; the last Irish Representative Peer.

Date: 1 December 1902.

Occasion: -

Location: The Lafayette Studio, 179 New Bond Street, London.

Descr: FL standing.

Costume: Full Dress uniform (Mounted Review Order), 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Life Guards.

Furniture & Props: Painted backdrop.

Evidence of studio at work: Extensive work on negative to face & aiguillette.

No of poses: 1.

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Biog: Burke's Peerage; The Complete Peerage; Who's Who; The Army List, 1902; The Times, 13 January 1961, p. 15a.

Occasion: -

Costume: Dress Regulations for the Army, London, 1900.

Reproduced: (Cropped version) "The Gentlewoman", 20 April 1907, p 535.