Sitter: Colonel Sir Clement Molyneux Royds (1842-1916).

Biog: Colonel Commanding Duke of Lancaster's Own Imperial Yeomanry; Honorary Colonel 2nd Volunteer Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers; Conservative M.P. for Rochdale 1895-1906.

Date: 24 October 1902.

Occasion: The Investiture, 24 October 1902: Companion of the Order of The Bath, Civil Division.

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

Descr: FL standing.

Costume: Full Dress uniform, Colonel, Duke of Lancaster's Own Imperial Yeomanry (?).

Orders, Decorations & Medals: Breast star and badge of a Knight of Justice of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem; badge of a Companion of the Order of the Bath (civil division) [CB cr 24-10-1902].

Furniture & Props: Painted backdrop.

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No of poses: 1.

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Biog: Burke's Landed Gentry; Burke's Peerage; Who's Who; The Army List, 1902; The Times, 29 January 1916, p 5d.

Occasion: The Times, 25 October 1902, p 8b.

Costume: -

Orders, Decorations & Medals: (Order of The Bath) Burke's Peerage; (Order of St. John) Charles W. Tozer, The Insignia and Medals of the Grand Priory of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, Croydon, 1975.

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