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Lot 474

CHURCHILL FAMILY
An album containing upwards of 150 images, probably compiled by Lady Georgiana Curzon (neé Spencer-Churchill), later Countess Howe (1860-1906), recording country house groups and activities at Howe and other houses including: Woodlands (near Uxbridge); Penn; Holdenby (Lord Clifden); Ascott (Rothschild); Easton; races at Windsor (Taplow), Stockton Races ('Randolph finds the day warm'); Invermark (Dalhousie); Guisachan (Tweedmouth); Glenquoich (Ellice); Loch Hourn; St. Johann (Hungarian estate of Baron Maurice de Hirsch,1831–1896), and Canford

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£2,000 - £3,000

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CHURCHILL FAMILY

An album containing upwards of 150 images, probably compiled by Lady Georgiana Curzon (neé Spencer-Churchill), later Countess Howe (1860-1906), recording country house groups and activities at Howe and other houses including: Woodlands (near Uxbridge); Penn; Holdenby (Lord Clifden); Ascott (Rothschild); Easton; races at Windsor (Taplow), Stockton Races ('Randolph finds the day warm'); Invermark (Dalhousie); Guisachan (Tweedmouth); Glenquoich (Ellice); Loch Hourn; St. Johann (Hungarian estate of Baron Maurice de Hirsch,1831–1896), and Canford, albumen prints, various sizes, bound in purple half roan, folio, [1892-1893]

Footnotes

TWO OTHERWISE UNKNOWN IMAGES OF WINSTON CHURCHILL AT EIGHTEEN, together with his brother Jack (12), and another of his mother Jenny at Canford. Another Spencer-Churchill sister, Cornelia (1847–1927), became Lady Wimborne, and it was at her house at Canford (Dorset) that an incident took place (10 January 1893) that Churchill was to recall in My Early Life, one that these photographs must pre-date by a few weeks at most. In the winter of 1892 Churchill had taken, and failed the Sandhurst entrance examination, for the second time. The consequence was that he did not return to Harrow, but went instead to a crammer. Between times, while spending the Christmas holidays at Canford, Churchill found himself trapped on a bridge over a chine, with Jack at one end and another boy at the other. He determined to escape by leaping from the bridge onto a fir tree, hoping to thenslide down to the ground. The plan went wrong and resulted in a ruptured kidney.

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