NAM.1978-10-104-3

Portrait photograph of Sir John Young, Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, with a rhyme referring to Sir Edward Lytton’s recall of Young after Young’s confidential cabinet despatches were leaked to the Daily News, 1859 (c): ‘Who recalled this Lord High? / “Twas I” Says Sir Lytton / “Cos he has been and written / ‘A dispatch that we did not try, / ‘To keep from the Press / ‘And got into a mess / ‘So we had to recall this Lord High.’ 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.