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PICTORIAL COMPANION to The rise and fall of Violet Douglas Pennant

Violet Blanche Douglas Pennant

Chapter 1

General view of Chapel Street, Belgrave Square

Mortimer House, Halkin Street

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George Sholto Douglas Pennant (2nd Baron Penrhyn)

Sezincote House, Gloucestershire

The Rushout family home, built for Sir Charles Cockerell 1st Baront Cockerell in neo-Mughal Indian design. Said to have influenced the Prince Regent’s design for Brighton Pavilion when he visited Sezincote in 1807.

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Chapter 2

A kitchen of the 1860s

Potrayal of childbirth in 1860s (Science Museum)

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Chapter 3

Edward Douglas Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn of Llandygai

Lady Maria Louisa Douglas Pennant (nee Fitzroy), 1st Baroness Penrhyn

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Chapter 4

Bisham Grange, Berkshire

All Saints’ Chuch, Bisham

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All Saint’s grave yard beside the Thames in modern times

Bisham Abbey

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Chapter 5

Auguste Schluter

St Deniol’s Church, Hawarden Estate, Flintshire, Wales

George and Gertrude Douglas Pennant (formerly Miss Glynne)

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Catherine Gladstone (nee Glynne) William Ewart Gladstone

Mary Gladstone Helen Gladstone

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Chapter 6

Torquay, Devon

Henry Fitzalan Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk and Arundel Castle, Sussex

Toddington Manor, seat of 3rd Baron Sudeley of the Hanbury-Tracy family

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Chapter 7

Church of St Tegal, Llandygai, Bangor, North Wales

Penrhyn Castle

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Chapter 8

Tile House, Lillingstone Dayrell, Buckinghamshire

Sholebrook Lodge, Towcester, Northamptonshire

Duke of Buckingham Alice, Duchess of B Lord Euston

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Chapter 9

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Georgine Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rdMarquis of Salisbury Marchioness of Salisbury

Annie Besant, with Bryant & May box packing room below

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Chapter 10

Edward Albert, Prince of Wales Princess Alexandra of Denmark, (later became Edward VII) Princess of Wales

Princes Maud of Wales & Princess Victoria of Wales

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1894 visit to Penrhyn Castle by the Prince & Princess of Wales

and Princesses Victoria & Maud (names added) (the original hangs in entrance lobby of Penrhyn Castle, photograph by North Wales Chronicle)

Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield Sir Francis Knollys

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Chapter 11

Oliver Arthur Villiers Russell, Margaret Russell (nee Lygon) Lord Ampthill Lady Ampthill

William Lygon, 5th Lord Beauchamp Mary Lygon

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Madresfield Court

Delhi Durbar 1903 (British Library)

Hallam Tennyson Lord Curzon

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Chapter 12

Muriel, Lady Helmsley Theresa, Lady Londonderry

Edith, Lady Londonderry Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart 7th Marquis of Londonderry

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Princess Louise Arthur Balfour Herbert Henry Asquith Duchess of Argyll

David Lloyd George Winston Churchill

Sir Robert Morant Cardiff City Hall

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Chapter 13

David Lloyd George Margaret Lloyd George Frances Stevenson

Olwyn Lloyd George Gwylim Lloyd George Mair Lloyd George

Megan Lloyd George Lord Justice John Eldon Bankes

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Chapter 14

Lucy Deane Streatfeild Violet Markham (Carruthers)

Arthur Basil Markham, MP May Tennant

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Chapter 15

Mrs Muriel Fitzroy Dame Katharine Furse (nee Douglas Pennant) (nee Symonds)

Mrs Mona Chalmers Watson Devonshire House (nee Geddes)

Alfred Harmsworth Sir Arthur Stanley Lord Derby

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Edith Crowdy Rachel Crowdy

Milton Ernest Hall, Bedfordshire

St George’s Church, Hanover Square

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Chapter 16

Sir Eric Geddes Harold Harmsworth Sir Godfrey Paine Gen Guy Livingstone Lord Rothermere

Diana of the Uplands Florence Burleigh Leach Lady Rhondda

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Chapter 17

Lady Gertrude Crawford (nee Molyneux) Mary MacArthur

Sir William Weir (later Lord Weir) Thomas Jones (“TJ”)

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Chapter 18

Miss Edith Pratt Maj Gen William Sefton Brancker

Miss Gwenda Glubb Colonel Samuel Janson

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Chapter 19

Women’s corps march in 1918 Berridge House, Hampstead

Major John Baird Dr Letitia Fairfield Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan

Miss Eileen O’Sullivan Avery Hill College WRAF officer training 1918

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William Tyson Wilson MP Sir Maurice Bonham Carter

Mrs Beckett WRAF rank & file training, Avery Hill, August 1918

Lady Kathleen Drogheda Mrs Millicent Fawcett Miss Philippa Strachey

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Chapter 20/21

Sir Auckland Geddes Cecil Harmsworth MP

Chapter 22

Lord James Stanhope Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck

Wilfrid Ashley MP

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Chapter 23

Members of House of Lords Select Committee, October 1919

Lord Denbigh Lord Kintore ….. Lord Methuen Lord Wrenbury

Sir Gordon Hewart Sir Patrick Hastings KC Attorney General

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Chapter 24

Douglas McGarel-Hogg KC Sir Edward Carson, KC 1st Viscount Hailsham

Chapter 25

Wicken Park House, Northamptonshire

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Alan George Douglas Pennant Charles Douglas Pennant

St John the Evangelist Church, Wicken, Northamptonshire

William Joynson-Hicks

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Chapter 26

Gertrude Eaton Henry Woode Nevinson Charles Prestwich Scott

Nina Boyle William Brown MP Sir William Jowitt

Methodist Central Hall, Westminster Sir Thomas Inskip

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“The Rise and Fall of Violet Douglas Pennant” by Susan Leona Fisher. A political biography written in the style of historical fiction. Available in print on Amazon books and as e-book from Kindle. ISBN13: 978-1-724859389 ISBN10: 1724859382 ASIN: B07G7C6NRB Published 5 August 2018 Pages: 300 Wordcount 112,000 Price: £11.50 (print), £7.99 (Kindle) Author’s website: www.SLFisherAuthor.co.uk The illustrations are, as far as I could establish, in the public domain and sources have been attributed where known. The book cover (above) is the author’s copyright.