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Webley-Parry papers series 5

Acc. 2680

Ref: WP/5/2

Reference: [GB 0212] WP/5/2
Title: Box of photographs
Date(s): 1870-1905
Level: File
Extent: 26 items

Scope and Content:
Red leather case from C.R. Christie, Edinburgh, containing 26 cabinet cards and similar that can be dated to the period c. 1870-1905. One of the earliest images, a copy of a portrait of Lady Owen (No. 2), was commissioned by Herbert Hope when commander. Still a lieutenant when he married Katherine Kewley in 1905, Herbert Hope had attained the rank of captain by 1917. The balance of subjects reflects the impression that Herbert Hope put together this collection, including, as it does, members of his and his bride’s interconnected families. Many of the cards have annotations in pencil or ink, those in ink apparently dating to the period between 1940 and 1959 (see No. 7).
Name of photographer’s studio is given below each description.

1. Chromotint, drawn portrait of gentleman identified on reverse as, ‘Sir John Owen of Orielton. Gt. Grandfather to Herbert Hope’
1905-

2. Chromotint, drawn portrait of lady, notes on reverse, ‘Commander Herbert Hope R.N. 43 Clarence Parade, Southsea’, ‘Lady Owen’
1905-

3. Catherine Angharad née Davies (1807-1853), who married William Henry Webley-Parry (1803-53), Noyadd Trefawr. The quality of the print, black and white and not sepia, suggests that it was made from an earlier negative after c. 1900.
Photographer not identified.
?1905-

4. Seated elderly woman with lap dog. Note on reverse, ‘Aunt Brigstocke of Blaenpant & Kipps(?), née Webley Parry’ - Maria Webley-Parry (1806-1898) who married William Owen Brigstocke.
C. Smith Allen, Excelsior Studio, Tenby & Cardigan (1864-71)

5. Elderly woman standing in doorway with garden furniture. Note on revers, ‘Mrs Brigstocke (née Maria Webley Parry of Noyadd)’. Appears contemporary with previous.
Holmes photographic artist.
c. 1864-1871

6. Young woman in theatrical costume. Note below image, “Nancy Lee”, note on reverse, ‘Alice A. E. Hope January 1880’. Alice Anne Elizabeth was the daughter of Rear Admiral Charles Webley Hope and married Reginald Austin Bewes in 1888.
Card torn in half.
Heath and Bullingham, Plymouth
1880

7. Family group portrait, without pater, with much heavy furniture. Notes on reverse, ‘The Hope family, mother, Ellen née Jordan, father Admiral Charles Hope. Willie D, George, Herbert, Alice D, Charles D., Adrian, Evelyn D, Owen D’. D = died and so the annotation must have been made between 1940 and 1959, when George died.
(Another copy in Blue Box �" WP/5/3/9)
Jno. Hawke, Plymouth
c. 1885?

8. Family group portrait, without pater, with much heavy furniture, attention focused on newspaper (same session as previous). Notes on reverse, ‘The Hope family’, ‘Herbert Hope’
Jno. Hawke, Plymouth.
c. 1885?

9. Moustachioed man seated on table, arms crossed, identified on reverse as Charles Hope (1864-1919).
Photographer not identified.
c. 1895

10. Young girl seated in chair, identified on reverse as Margaret Bewes Archer (at 4?). Margaret Elizabeth Hope Archer was the daughter of Reginald Anstis Bewes and Alice Anne Elizabeth, née Hope, sister of Herbert Hope. She married: 1. Richard Bayley (1912); 2. Sir Ernest Russell Archer (1917), so annotation postdates 1917
Heath of Plymouth
c. 1893

11. Three children. Note on reverse, ‘Margaret (1889-1975), Roy (Reginald Charles Hope Bewes 1890-1914/5) & George (Price Hope) Bewes (1892-1967), children of Alice (née Hope) & Reginald (Anstis) Bewes, m. 1888. Roy killed flying 1914’.
Heath of Plymouth
c. 1896

12. Three young men in theatrical costume (Robin Hood), ‘Debenham, Photo, Southsea. Fancy Dress Ball, Ton Hall, Portsmouth, November 17th, 1898. Taken at Midnight’. Note on reverse, ‘Admiral Sir George Hope, Admiral Thesiger’. This may be the future Sir Bertram Thesiger (1875-1966).
1898

13. Boy in sailor suit, identified on reverse as Frank Kewley (b. 1868), brother of Katherine.
E. Ogier, Bath Street, Jersey
1874-6

14. Boy with hat. Identified on reverse as Frank Kewley
Heath and Bullingham, Plymouth
c. 1880

15. Full-bearded man, seated with book, coloured portrait. Notes on reverse, ‘Married Mary Elizabeth Webley Parry of Noyadd’, ‘Rev Francis Kewley’, Father of Frank, John, Mary, Rigby & Katherine. Frank and John died early (in) life. Mary married Charles Henry of Lodge Park, Staffs, died Sept. 1941 …’
J. Perkins, Bath
c. 1880

16. Soulful child with flower. Note on reverse, ‘Katherine Kewley 8 years old. Married Herbert Hope, her second cousin.’
Lambert Weston & Son, Folkeston
c. 1882

17. White bearded man in academic robes, seated in garden. In ink on image, ‘Charles Kewley’, in ink on reverse, ‘Rev. Francis Kewley M.A. B.A. of Jesus College Oxford.
C. Harris, Dover
1885-1890?

18. Cameo of jocund woman in hat. Notes on reverse in two hands, ‘Katherine Kewley, when she was young & happy!’, ‘Mrs Herbert Hope (née Kewley). Katherine Kewley married the future Admiral Herbert Willes Webley Hope in 1905.
Palmerston Road, Southsea, photographer’s name lost to trimming
1890s?

19. Laughing woman, standing, in white dress, note on reverse amid scribble, ‘Miss Katherine Kewley. To be returned to Mrs Gee, Oakleigh, Broadwater, Tunbridge’, ‘married Lieutenant Hope’. Ellen Gee was aunt to Katherine and Mary.
Photographer not identified
1890s?

20. Two young women in theatrical costume playing stringed instruments. Notes on reverse, ‘With a … face’, ‘Mary & Katherine Kewley’.
(For other images from this studio session see Green Box - WP/5/1/34-5 and Blue Box �" WP/5/3/25-6)
Percy S. Lankester, Tunbridge Wells
c. 1894-7.

21. Young man seated at ease holding gloves and hat. Identified on reverse as John Kewley.
Constantine Jennings, Tunbridge Wells
1890-95?

22. Head and shoulders portrait of young moustachioed man. Notes on reverse, ‘John Kewley’, ‘died of consumption at Biarritz at the age of twenty two’
Percy S. Lankester, Tunbridge Wells
c. 1895?

23. Head and shoulders of heavy-featured, moustachioed man. Note on reverse, ‘Mr Charles C. Henry. To be returned to: - Miss K. Kewley, 1 Lennox Mansions, Southsea’. Charles Henry of Lodge Park, Staffordshire, married Mary Kewley.
Photographer not identified
1895-1905

24. Line drawing head and shoulders portrait of young woman, signed Frank Miles 1877. Printed below, ‘Elaine’ - lines taken from Rossetti’s ‘The Portrait’.
1877

25. Head and shoulders of heavily moustachioed man. Note on print, ‘?Cousin ?Jim Edwards of Nurstead & F…, Kent. D[eceased]’, note on reverse, ‘Colonel Jim Edwards, Hazels’ (James Frederick Edmeades 1843-1918)
Lafayette, Dublin, Glasgow, Manchester
1892-

26. Boy standing at rustic gate in studio. Note on reverse, Edward ?Ag…’
Percy S. Lankester, Tunbridge Wells
c. 1895-1900?