sirgeorgereid

This is another picture from 1913, the meeting of the Anglo-American Peace Centenary (1814-1914) Committee. Use the tag to find the other pictures associated with the event. NYT article from May 6, 1913 lists delegates 'PEACE ENVOYS BEGIN CELEBRATION PLANS; Delegates from England and British Colonies Officially Welcomed by Gaynor.' query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9404E7D91F3AE633A... Third from left, with dark mustache and coat over his arm, is Henry Vivian. See www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3239320332/ Third from right, with a stick, is Lord Weardale. See pro.corbis.com/search/Enlargement.aspx?CID=isg&mediauid={8D194D79-87D8-48B6-87A5-377FAE12417C} for another picture of him.

Fifth from right, with bowler and hands on cane is Capt. Sir Arthur Lawley. See www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3121124180/ Center front with watch chain on substantial paunch is Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for Australia in London. Between Reid and Lawley might be the 7th Earl Stanhope thepeerage.com/p3481.htm#i34809 -- who would have been 33 at the time. According to peerage.com, he was the nephew of Lord Weardale.

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Another Bain/LOC photo of British peace delegates, with Andrew Carnegie:

I started an entry in Wikipedia on the topic: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-American_Peace_Centenary

Sir George Reid was an Australian politician, born in 1845. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_George_Reid

Mrs. [Oliver Templeton] Johnson (b. Laura Winthrop) wrote prose and poetry, including Poems of Twenty Years (1874), 800 Miles in an Ambulance (1899), and The Life and Poems of Theodore Winthrop (1884). Her father, Francis Bayard Winthrop, Jr. of New Haven, Conn., collected works of art, including those of painter Washington Allston. Source: siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!2...

Other Bain/LOC photos of Sir George Reid:

Famous Australian politician. Wikipedia entry is reasonably accurate: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_George_Reid See also here: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2349130513/

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According to the New York Times article of Thursday September 19, 1912, Sir George Reid arrived in New York the previous day. (ref. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C06E5D6123CE633A... According to ellis Island records he also arrived on Caronia from Liverpool on May 04, 1913. He is also known to have visited the USA in November 1917 for a speaking tour, during which he contracted pneumonia and had to cancel much of the engagements. (ref. about 1917 speaking tour: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9901E4DB163AE532A... ) According to Ellis Island records he arrived on New York, from Liverpool on October 22, 1917. Lady Reid was later to become Dame Flora Reid in her own right: "During the First World War his wife Flora Reid worked to provide services to the Australian troops. For this she was made a Dame Grand Cross of the British Empire in 1917 and was among the first to receive the award." (ref. www.nma.gov.au/education/school_resources/websites_and_in... and www.naa.gov.au/naaresources/publications/research_guides/... and the New York Times article mentioning her honor here: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D06E4DD123FE433A... )

See www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3238477345/ Could be at same event.

Other Bain/LOC photos of Sir George Reid: