MORLEY, COUNTESS OF
Neg. No: 3175
Neg. Size: 15"x 12"
Neg. Date: 25-6-1902

Biog: Eldest daughter of Robert Stayner Holford, M.P., of Dorchester House, London, and Westonbirt, Co. Gloucester; m. (1876) 3rd Earl of Morley.

Date: 23 June 1902.

Occasion: The Coronation of King Edward VII, 9 August 1902.

Location: The Lafayette Studio, 179 New Bond Street, London.

Descr: FL standing.

Costume: Coronation robes of a Countess; kirtle embroidered in gold with fern leaves; white satin kirtle panel embroidered in gold with fern leaves and flounced with point de gaze, jabots of the same lace on either side of the kirtle front.

Costume Supplier: Mme. Jane Palmer, 11 Hinde Street, Manchester Square, London, W.

Jewellery: -

Furniture & Props: Painted backdrop.

Evidence of photographer at work: -

No of poses: 1.

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Biog: Burke's Landed Gentry; Burke's Peerage; The Complete Peerage, Alan Sutton, 1987; The Times, 11 February 1908, p 12f.

Occasion: J.E.C. Bodley, The Coronation of Edward the Seventh, A Chapter of European and Imperial History, London, 1903, Appendix I, p 365, (Lists of Persons Present at or who were invited by the King's Command, to the Coronation of Their Majesties King Edward VII. and Queen Alexandra...).

Costume: The Observer, 10 August 1902, p 6f; The Times, 11 August 1902, p 15c; The Court Journal, 16 August 1902, p 14; The Queen, 16 August 1902, pp 256-7.

Costume Supplier: The Court Journal, 16 August 1902, p 24.

Jewellery: -

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