Portrait photograph of Deputy Lieutenant Kirkham, 1859 (c), wearing a cocked hat with feathers, gold shoulder epaulettes and has a sword hanging from his sword belt. A Deputy Lieutenant is a Crown appointment and one of several deputies to the Lord-Lieutenant.

From a photograph album of 83 photographs compiled for the Corfu Garrison Club by Capt Arthur E V Ponsonby, Grenadier Guards and presented by him on the garrison's departure to Deputy Commissary General Robert Grey Donaldson-Selby, 1859-1860.