Dublin 1868
photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2017-09-7-1-177

Description

Photograph of eight Grenadier Guards officers, posing for the image by a brick wall or fortification, Dublin, 1868. They have two dogs with them. They wear a mixture of civilian suits and undress uniform with frock coats and peaked forage caps. They are listed as: The Honourable Charles Frederick Crichton (seated on the left with the dog on his lap); Lt Col FitzRoy Augustus Talbot Clayton (standing, second from the left); The Honourable Norman de L’Aigle Grosvenor (leaning on the sloped wall, third from the left); Capt William Henry Parnell (seated on the wall with a walking stick); the Honourable George Arnulph Montgomerie (standing, highest in the image, against the wall); Capt Thomas Ferdinand Fairfax (standing, third from the right); Lt John James Hope Johnstone (standing, far right); Lt Col Cameron Neville Hogge (seated on a backwards chair). 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.