Viceroy Gallery

Major Metcalfe, Mrs F. Cripps, and Lady Alexandra Metcalfe

Edward Dudley Metcalfe, MVO, MC, (16 January 1887 18 November 1957), known as Fruity Metcalfe, officer in the British Indian Army, a close friend and equerry of Edward VIII, sitting on the beach at Deauville, CFleurie, France, with the Honorable Mrs. Fred Cripps, formerly the Duchess of Westminster, and his wife, Lady Alexandra Metcalfe, formerly Lady Alexandra Curzon, CBE (20 March/April 1904 7 August 1995), the third daughter of George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston and Viceroy of India. Date: 1928

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Pleasure routes across the Atlantic

Pleasure routes in the wake of Columbus - mapped in the manner of the old cartographers: ocean cruises to the Caribbean and the romantic islands of the West Indies, once the haunt of the buccaneers, and a thousand miles further north of the Bermudas. An old style map showing the routes of various ocean cruise liners across the Atlantic during the 1930s. Ships include the Reina des Pacifico, the Laconia, the Britannic, and the Duchess of Richmond. To the top left of the map is an impression of the booking hall at travel agent, Thomas Cook in Berkeley Street, London. Date: 1932

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Richard Southwell Bourke (1822 -1872). Member of the British

Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, (1822 -1872), styled Lord Naas between 1842 and 1867. Statesman and member of the British Conservative Party from Dublin, Ireland. Engraving by Paris. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1872. Colored

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