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DERBY, Constance : A Fine Cabinet Photograph of Lady Constance Derby By Brown, Barnes and Bell of Liverpool, Ca. 1905, SIGNED By Constance DERBY

Brown Barnes & Bell, Liverpool Ca. 1905

A fine portrait of Lady Derby , 3/4 length in full formal dress. Signed in ink on the background to the right of the head. She was the wife of Lord Derby. Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby KG GCB GCVO PC (15 January 1841 – 14 June 1908), known as Frederick Stanley until 1886 and as Lord Stanley of Preston between 1886 and 1893, was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as Colonial Secretary from 1885 to 1886 and the sixth Governor General of Canada from 1888 to 1893. Lord Derby married Lady Constance Villiers, daughter of George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, K.G., G.C.B., on 31 May 1864.. She was born in 1840. They had eight sons and two daughters (of whom one son and one daughter died as children). Her Ladyship remained and several of their children lived in Canada throughout his term as Governor General. She was responsible for the foundation of the Lady Stanley Institute for Trained Nurses in Ottawa, Ontario, as well as a Maternity Hospital. She was president of the $4,000 fund instituted by the women of Canada for the presentation of a wedding gift to the present Prince and Princess of Wales: a sleigh, robes, harness and horses and a canoe. In 1890 Prince George of Wales, later Prince of Wales was their guest at Rideau Hall. In 1903 His Majesty the King was their guest at their residence, St. James Square, London, England.

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