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| Picture No | 12017207 |
| Date | 1937 |
| Description | Lord and Lady Tweeddale with family and exotic pets |
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Lord and Lady Tweeddale with family and exotic pets at Yester Gifford, East Lothian (designed and built by Adam) - large decorative mural painting by John Churchill for the Tweeddale London home. Pictured (from left) are the Marchioness of Tweeddale with Woo-Woo a baby gibbon monkey and Beam her champion Golden Retriever; the Artist; Lady Kathleen Curzon-Herrick, a cousin of the artist and daughter of the Earl of Huntingdon; Miss Sally Churchill, daughter of the Artist; Lady Georgina Hay and her champion Shetland Collie, Goldust; Lady Frances Hay and her pony, Foalie; Lady Daphne Hay and her dog, Flame; and (in foreground) George, a chimpanzee; Miss Marianne Berry, elder daughter of Lady Helene Berry, and granddaughter of Lord and Ladt Tweeddale; the Hon Lionel Berry; Lady Helen Berry and her younger daughter, Jane, and the Marquess of Tweeddale with his half Labrador and retriever, Haile Selassie. Other animals in the scene include a Humboldt woolly monkey called Napoleon; an olive baboon called Olive, with Herbert, the roe deer; and at the top of the column, Blanche, a Humboldt woolly monkey. Prodnose the hedgehog and Monk, a spaniel, are also included.
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| Source | The Sketch 17th November 1937 p299 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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