Portrait photograph of William Morris aged 46

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Date: c.1903-1904
Dimensions: 7.4 x 10.2
Object Type: photograph
Material: photograph
Catalogue number: P828
Sitter: Morris, Lionel Arthur (1897 - 1971)
Credit notes: Presented by Thomas Rowsell, 2020

This photograph shows Lionel Arthur Morris the son of Arthur Morris, William Morris’s fourth brother. Lionel was born after William Morris’s death and is seen here as a child at the start of the twentieth century. His father, Arthur Morris, was a Colonel in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps and was six years younger than William Morris.

William Morris was directly opposed to the kind of imperialist expansionism that Arthur Morris represented, but was generally civil to him when they saw each other. In 1881 William Morris visited him ‘to see the last of Arthur before he goes to India’ and it is likely Arthur was one of the two brothers who were recorded as attending Morris’s funeral in 1896.

Following in his father’s footsteps, Lionel also joined the King’s Royal Rifle Corps and was a Lieutenant during the First World War.

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Date: c.1909-1910
Dimensions: 8.5 x 10.7
Object Type: photograph
Material: photograph
Catalogue number: P827
Sitter: Morris, Lionel Arthur (1897 - 1971)
Credit notes: Presented by Thomas Rowsell, 2020

Following in his father’s footsteps, Lionel also joined the King’s Royal Rifle Corps and was a Lieutenant during the first world war.

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Date: 1900-1910
Dimensions: 16.4 x 10.6
Object Type: photograph
Material: photograph
Catalogue number: P808
Sitter: King (neé Morris), Sarah Emma (1828 - 23.08.1921)
Credit notes: Presented by C.E. Robins, 2007

Sarah Emma King (neé Morris) was first cousin of William Morris. Her father was John Morris, brother to William Morris Snr (William Morris’s father).

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Date: c.1870-1880
Object Type: photograph
Material: photograph
Catalogue number: P806
Photographer: Robert Faulkner & Co.
Sitter: Howard (née Stanley), Rosalind Frances, Countess of Carlisle (1845 - 1921)
Credit notes: Presented by C.E. Robins, 2007

Rosalind Frances Howard, Countess of Carlisle and her husband George were good friends of the Morris family. The two families went on holidays together in Italy and the Morrises frequently stayed with them at their home Naworth Castle in Cumberland. Rosalind was called ‘The Radical Countess’ due to her campaigning for women’s political rights and of temperance reform. Besides having eleven children, she helped managed the family estates, and was an active member of local government. In 1890 she became a member of the Women’s Liberal Federation and persuaded the organisation to support extending the suffrage to all women.

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Date: c. 1930s
Dimensions: 16.4 x 12.2
Object Type: photograph
Material: photograph
Catalogue number: P845
Sitter: Mackmurdo | Arthur Heygate | 1851 | 1942

The artist Arthur Heygate mackmurdo photographed seated in a garden, wearing an artist’s smock. In his 1968 work, Studies in art, architecture, and design, the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner recalls a past meeting with A.H. Mackmurdo (1851-1942) age 86: ‘He walked with me and talked of his economic conceits, his light blue eyes glittering, his wavy white hair blown by a breeze, a black coat slipped on over his butcher-blue blouse or blue shirt – the kind of blue blouse that William Morris wore, and which Voysey wore. The shirt being in this case- as in other cases- a profession of faith.’

Material: photograph

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