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WD1364

Record Id:

032-003268026

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003268026

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

WD1364

Title:

Album of 27 drawings; 26 portraits and caricatures of members of the India Office Social Club. 1901-4. Artist(s): Wickham, William Allen (1857-1938)

Scope & Content:

27 drawings (60 pages); 26 portraits and caricatures of members of the India Office Social Club. 1901-4.

Some portraits signed: ‘W.A.W’. and inscribed with subject and notes.

Pencil, pen-and-ink, and wash; size of volume 14.5 by 10 ins.

Presented.

Note: A menu for the twelfth dinner in 1907 is included; also a copy of a speech made by Sir E. Clarke, K.C., at a dinner on 11 December 1909, which includes anecdotes of Charles Lamb and a description of the first competitive examination for E.I. Company's writerships. The ranks listed below are those held by the officers when the portraits were drawn.

p.1 Title page. Indians smoking beside a refreshment hut.

‘I.O. Social Club. Caricatures & Sketches.’

p.4a Unidentified portrait.

p.4b Unidentified portrait. ‘The Honorary Secretary of the I.O. Social Club. 1901.’

p.5 William Edmondson Phelps, Assistant Superintendent of the India Store Depot.

p.7a Alfred George Taunton, Senior Clerk, India Store Department.

p.7b Samuel Arthur Taylor, Senior Clerk, India Store Depot.

p.9 Edwin Grant Burls, Director-General, India Store Department.

p.10 Commander G. Talbot Wingfield, R.N., Superintendent of the India Store Depot.

p.11a W.E. Phelps.

p.11b Frederick Talbot Eades, Staff Clerk. India Store Department.

p.11c Unidentified portrait. ‘Billy. I.O. Social Club. 1901.’

p.11d Unidentified portrait’. The Chairman. I.O. Social Club. 1901.’

p.12a William George Butler, Deputy Director-General (later Director-General), India Store Department.

p.12b Unidentified portrait.

p.13 Henry Charles Preece, Second Class Clerk, India Store Department.

p.14a John Abraham Bolster, Second Class Clerk, Accountant-General's Department.

p.14b Unidentified portrait. ‘The Vice-Chairman, I.O. Social Club’.

p.15 William Henslow Hooker, Supervisor, India Store Depot.

p.16 William Maxwell Biden, Supervisor, India Store Depot.

p.17a Lieut.-Colonel James Reid, I.M.S., Examiner of Medical Stores, India Store Depot.

p.17b Benjamin Trail Ffinch, Director-General of the Indo-European Telegraph, Public Works Department.

p.17c George Fletcher Teague, Senior Clerk, Fund Department.

p.18a Herbert William Harding, Senior Clerk, Audit Department (later Auditor).

p.18b Thomas Ralph Ellenor, Second Class Clerk, Accountant-General's Department.

p.21a Frederick G.B. Trevor, Director of Funds.

p.21b Frederick Busfield Armstrong, Senior Clerk (later Director of Funds).

p.23 Barnett Lionel Abrahams, Under-Secretary of State.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003268026

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-003268026

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 Item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Styles:

British school
European school

Start Date:

1901

End Date:

1904

Date Range:

1901-1904

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Medium: pencil; pen-and-ink; wash

Finding Aids:

Mildred Archer, British drawings in the India Office Library (London, 1969) Volume I-II, 350-351

Material Type:

Prints, Drawings and Paintings

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Wickham, William Allen, 1857-1938

Subjects:

Portraits
caricatures

Places:

England