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Two women with elegant hats and two dogs - Yeehaw!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 16 older comments, and then…
  • Niall McAuley said:
    A wire-haired Jack Russell or a fox terrier? and a Glen of Imaal terrier?
  • Niall McAuley said:
    On this date, the Countess was Blanche Vere Ponsonby, née Guest: Her married name became Ponsonby. As a result of her marriage, Blanche Vere Guest was styled as Countess of Bessborough on 24 February 1906.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    That would be her on our left.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Presumably somewhere on the Bessborough demesne (GeoHive link to 25" OSI map)
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    The other lady is Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (granddaughter of Queen Victoria) at least according to the photo featured earlier:

September 30, 1911

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 2 older comments, and then…
  • Swordscookie said:
    She looks more like a legal eagle up at the Kings Inns! Very good shot though.
  • La Belle Province said:
    The quality of mercy is not strained.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    La Belle Province "... It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven, upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: it blesseth him that gives and him that takes ..."
  • Niall McAuley said:
    She has a page at thepeerage: born 1888, married Windham Baring in 1913, 3 children Robin, Mark and Patrick. Husband died in 1922, she remarried to Ralph Henry Voltelin Cavendish in 1926, and had another son Edward Simon Myles Cavendish. She lived until 1984!
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Niall McAuley Keep up the great work, much appreciated.

Indoor Servants at Bessborough House

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • XPAT-Polska said:
    It's a grand shot for sure.
  • derangedlemur said:
    Jug-ears at the back there looks familiar. Did we have him in a different photo?
  • Probable Ice said:
    no kitchen staff in this one. even among the servants there was a class system. wonderful picture.
  • derangedlemur said:
    I think I've seen him (or someone who looked like him) in a WWI photo somewhere.
  • Micheál Cattigan said:
    wild guess; Back row 2nd from left. driver.