Partial photograph album [compiled by Carola or Margery Seward], 1926
Scope and Contents
Only partially copied (without holiday photos and non-Downing groups). Includes: Lord Robert Cecil and Canon Raven with A. C. Seward at Downing; Margery at the pianola in the Drawing Room in the Master's Lodge; Mary Hayward and Miss Smuts; Dockerill in an Austin car in front of the Master's Lodge at Downing; Huon and Camilla Walton [Dorothy and John's children]; Helen and Ladybird Haslam; Dorothy Sampson [Phyllis and Michael's daughter]; Margery ('dressed for Princess Mary') and Carola in the Master's Lodge garden with conservatory; Sir Hilton and Lady Kathleen Young (widow of Robert Falcon Scott) with Peter Markham Scott and Wayland Young, possibly in the Master's Lodge garden; Lettice, Frank and Jane Ramsey; Mr Wilson, Stratton and Hugh Hamshaw Thomas; Ronald and Pat Goode; Carola with gardener Mr Wheal and Doris (maid), both in Master's Lodge garden; the Arbor family with Margery on the steps of the Master's Lodge.
Dates
- Creation: 1926
Creator
- From the Collection: Seward, Sir Albert Charles, 1863-1941 (Knight, botanist and geologist) (Person)
- From the Collection: Seward, Marion, 1861-1924 (nee Brewis, wife of Albert Charles Seward and artist) (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Open to researchers. The majority of the collection is available in digital form only. Publication requests to be approved by the family.
Extent
11 digital file(s)
Immediate Source of Acquisition
2021-22/011 - loaned by Seward family for copying for Archive. Returned July 2023.
Physical Description
Electronic copies only - scanned from loaned originals.
Subject
- Cecil, Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne, 1864–1958 (1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, politician and peace campaigner) (Person)
- Seward, Albert Charles, Sir, 1863 - 1941 (Knight, botanist and geologist) (Person)
- Scott, Sir Peter Markham, 1909-1989 (Knight, painter, ornithologist and broadcaster) (Person)
- Young, Kathleen, 1878–1947 (née Bruce, afterwards Scott, sculptor) (Person)
- Young, Edward Hilton, 1879-1960 (1st Baron Kennet and politician) (Person)
- Young, Wayland Hilton, 1923 - 2009 (2nd Baron Kennet, author and politician) (Person)
- Ramsey, Frank Plumpton, 1903-1930 (philosopher and mathematician) (Person)
- Ramsey, Lettice Cautley, 1898 - 1985 (née Baker, psychologist and photographer) (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Downing College Repository
Downing College Archive
Downing College
Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 1DQ United Kingdom
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