Margaret Elizabeth Clark is the daughter of William
Robinson Clark
and his wife Elizabeth Jane Clark (nee Higgins) |
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William Robinson Clark (1829-1912)
Her father |
(photo kindly supplied by the
Royal Society of Canada) |
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As reported by an early Lyon family member
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| One of George Lyon's sisters had married the Rev. Mr. Clark
of Deviot (two miles from Inverurie). Her son Rev. Wm. Clark
refused two bishoprics including that of Ely. His two daughters
had become Roman Catholics at a French School. One was Lady
Cole* the other Lady Petre, the latter a very old barony which
descends to daughters as well as male heirs it is "Petre of
Furnwall". Rev. Wm. Clark was at Wells and later came to Trinity
College Toronto. I remember, as a very small child hearing him
lecture on, "The Water Babies". He was a very handsome man.
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| * Alan Summerly Cole, the son of Sir Henry Cole, was an emminent
person in his own right but I can find no evidence he was a
Sir or Lord [ed]. |
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Alan Summerly Cole (1846-1934)
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Expert in textiles and embroidery.
Director of Soth kensington Museum, now Victoria and Albert Museum
(V & A).
Described as Textile expert, museum official and diarist.
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Books by Alan Summerly Cole
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| Embroidery from the South Kensington Museum / edited by Alan S.
Cole. |
| Ornament in European silks; by Alan S. Cole. |
| Ancient Needlepoint and Pillow Lace. Arundel Society, 1875. 59 pages.
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| Weaving. Cambridge University Press, 1911. 16 pages. |
| A renascence of the Irish art of lace-making. London, 1888. Title
no: 4.2.328 (1 mf) |
| Cantor lectures on the art of lace-making. London, 1881. Title no:
4.2.577 (1 mf) |
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| Friend of Whistler ( James Abbot McNeill Whistler 1834-1903) and
Oscar Wilde |
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The daughters of William Robinson Clark
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| He appeared to have (at least) five daughters:- |
- Katherine Elsie Clark, later Hon Mrs Petre and subsequently
Lady Hawtrey
- Margaret Elizabeth Clark, married Alan Summerly Cole,
son of Sir Henry Cole, the first director of the (V&A)
South Kensington Museum
- Etheldreda Mary Clark (known as Audrey), later Lady Petre
- Hylda or Hilda Frances E Clark, married the exploere
Henry De Windt
- Augusta M Clark has now been cnfirmed as the previously
missing daughter.
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Sir Henry Cole
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Penny Post
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Henry Cole is credited with introducing the penny-postage
scheme on 5 July 1839.
" The man chosen to implement the scheme was an energetic
young civil servant
named Henry Cole who worked in the Records Office." |
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| Sir Henry Cole was a prominent innovator in the 1800s. He modernized
the British postal system, managed construction of the Albert Hall,
arranged for the Great Exhibition in 1851, and oversaw the inauguration
of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Most of all, Cole sought to "beautify
life," and in his spare time he ran an art shop on Bond Street, specializing
in decorative objects for the home. In the summer of 1843, he commissioned
Horsley to design an impressive card for that year’s Christmas. |
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Englishman Henry Cole gave birth to the idea of Christmas cards
in 1843. Since he was too busy to write a personal holiday greeting,
Cole hired well-known London artist John Calcott Horsley to design
a card he could send to all his acquaintances. The cards made use
of the religious symbolism of Christmas. Panels depicted the virtues
of feeding the poor and clothing the naked. Horsley also painted
sprigs of holly, the symbol of chastity and ivy, symbolic of a place
where God has walked, throughout the design. Still, the card was
criticized by temperance groups because it pictured a family with
wine glasses raised in a toast. Many believe the controversy aided
the popularisation of the Christmas card-sending tradition.
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The design was a triptychdesign , i.e. in three sections with the
figures on each side
and the family in the centre. |
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| First Christmas Card, 1843, designed for Sir Henry Cole |
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| Sir
Henry Cole - more links |
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Penny Black stamp
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| In 1839, the British Treasury had announced a competition to design
the new stamps, but none of the submissions were considered suitable,
and the Treasury chose instead to use a profile of Victoria. The head
was engraved by Charles and Fredrick Heath based on a sketch provided
by Henry Cole. Cole's sketch was in turn based on the head by William
Wyon, that had been done for a medal used to commemorate the visit
of Queen Victoria to the City of London in the year she ascended the
throne, 1837. |
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Facts about the penny black and post
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| First stamp |
| Pre-paid postage previously recipient paid |
| Used with envelopes |
| Previously paid per sheet |
| Copied around the world |
| UK stamps do not carry country name |
| Discontinued because difficult to check cancellation |
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and the envelope
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| In the event when Hill was given a two-year contract to run the
new system he and Henry Cole ran a competition for the best way to
prepay letters. None of the 2600 entries were good enough, so in the
end Hill launched the service in 1840 with an envelope bearing a reproduction
of a design created by the artist William Mulready and a stamp bearing
an reproduction of the profile of the reigning British monarch, Queen
Victoria. There are also references on the record to covers bearing
the Mulready design. To this day, all British stamps bear a profile
of the reigning monarch somewhere on the design, and are the only
nationality of stamp that do not name their country of origin. |
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| Sir
Henry Cole - V&A Museum |
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