malcomson

"Miss Malcomson and Lady Clodagh on steps" says the title at the NLI. I think Miss Malcomson is the one on the right with the sausage dog due to this - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000591180 Ed. And might be called 'Clodagh' from this - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000715343

Lady Clodagh being Lady Clodagh Beresford, whose sister has featured before:

Ooo - were they sisters ? "Misses Malcomson in Trap" - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000591181

Sharon Corbet Aha! I have not been keeping up !

From the peerage dot com: Lady Clodagh Beresford was born on 6 August 1879. She was the daughter of John Henry de la Poer Beresford, 5th Marquess of Waterford and Lady Blanche Elizabeth Adelaide Somerset. She married Hon. Claud Anson, son of Thomas George Anson, 2nd Earl of Lichfield and Lady Harriett Georgiana Louisa Hamilton, on 27 February 1901. She died on 17 April 1957 at age 77.1 Her married name became Anson. So if this is 1901+ per the catalog, she is most likely Clodagh Anson here.

The Wikipedia page for her seems to be missing the second "l" which appears in her last name in the annotation by the photographer in this Bain photo. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Malcomson She appears with and without the "l." The Miss America page www.missamerica.org/organization/history/ has a picture with "Malcolmson" as written by the photographer on the Bain copy. But the entry for 1924 at the right has "Malcomson." www.findagrave.com/memorial/18807692/ruth-schaubel does not have a gravestone for her, but the gravestones for her father and mother use "Malcomson."

Thanks swanq. I'm pretty sure she spelled her name "Malcomson". I found census records spelling it that way and some other articles about her, including a short interview from the 1980's spelling it that way.