NAM.2017-09-7-1-102

Studio portrait photograph of Lt Col Richard Lyons Otway Pearson, Grenadier Guards, 1865. He is standing leaning against a small pillar, dressed in civilian clothing with a frock coat. He has an umbrella in one hand and his top hat rests on the pillar. Lt Col Pearson was the Assistant Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police from 1881 to 1890. From an album of 202 photographs in the Grenadier Guards Photograph Archive compiled by or presented to Surgeon Major James John Marjoribanks Wardrop. The album is entitled: ‘Personal Album Surgeon Major Wardrup [sic], The Regiment, 1858-1868’, but covers the period 1854-1872. Mainly officers portraits. Grenadier Guards reference number 2.