Earl of Dalhousie (LOC)

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Earl of Dalhousie

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
 Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.17728

Call Number: LC-B2- 3285-4

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  1. pennylrichardsca (14 months ago | reply)

    Seems to be the 14th Earl of Dalhousie, Arthur George Maule Ramsay (1878-1928), who fought in the Boer Wars and WWI, as a captain in the Scots Guards.

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  3. Cassies grandma (14 months ago | reply)

    I love that uniform. I can see a version on the runway of a fashion show.

  4. swanq (14 months ago | reply)

    thepeerage.com/p1133.htm#i11325
    has some additional genealogical information on the 14th Earl of Dalhousie.

    It looks as though jssgallery.org/Paintings/Earl_of_Dalhousie.ht m must be him too, since he acceded to the title in 1887 (apparently at the age of 9).

    www.clanramsay.org/history_scotland.html
    Indicates that his parents died within 24 hours of each other, but does not say how. "After a prolonged tour through the United States, the Earl tragically died within twenty-four hours of his wife's death in 1887. "

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  6. swanq (14 months ago | reply)

    @ Cassies grandma: I was stunned by the gorgeous uniform too. I had never seen those straps (or whatever they would be called) that are across the chest but deliberately not fastened. After searching for ages, I found this
    www.swordforum.com/forums/showthread.php?1042 01-Scots-Gua...!

    This guy is in what looks like the same uniform and someone in the thread states categorically that it's a Scots Guards uniform (or Scots Fusilier Guards -- a previous name). Of course, it's an officer's uniform.

    And here is another picture, in a sale announcement:
    www.icollector.com/An-Officer-s-Uniform-of-th e-Scots-Guar...

    I think it is the "frock coat"

    Following the "frock coat" thread, I find:
    jssgallery.org/Paintings/20028.html
    and
    from thepeerage.com/e172.htm
    "one [portrait of Arthur, Duke of Connaught] by J. S. Sargent (1910) in blue frogged frock-coat of the Grenadier Guards (with a replica at Government House, Ottawa)"

    So this is Dalhousie in his Scots Guards frock coat.

  7. swanq (14 months ago | reply)

    Here's a photo of the Duke of Connaught's frock coat
    Frockcoat Grenadier Guards

  8. Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (14 months ago | reply)

    I started a Wikipedia entry for him:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_George_Maule_Ram say,_14th_Ea...

  9. Cassies grandma (14 months ago | reply)

    Thanks for the added info Swanq

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  11. Ryan (LOC P&P) (13 months ago | reply)

    Thanks from us too, your swanqness, for your extraordinary effort to uncover the mystery of the jacket and to give us a proper addition to the title. We'll add it to the record the next time we update.

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