seaJane Posted 13 December , 2014 Share Posted 13 December , 2014 A new theme in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/theme/106740 sJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horatio2 Posted 13 December , 2014 Share Posted 13 December , 2014 A jolly useful link, I expect .... once you have posted your log-in details for the rest of us to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiegeGunner Posted 13 December , 2014 Share Posted 13 December , 2014 I echo that, H2. Does this have to do with the painting of senior naval officers of the Great War, brought together in an imagined scene that includes the late Kit Cradock? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeldr Posted 13 December , 2014 Share Posted 13 December , 2014 Does this have to do with the painting of senior naval officers of the Great War, brought together in an imagined scene that includes the late Kit Cradock? By the way..... The Army version was known as 'Still Life, with Boots' What was this one known as? http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitLarge/mw00084/Naval-Officers-of-World-War-I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 14 December , 2014 Author Share Posted 14 December , 2014 I'm losing count of the number of times I've told people that the Oxford DNB is available in Britain via home computer fron your local library website if you type in your library card number ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeldr Posted 14 December , 2014 Share Posted 14 December , 2014 I'm losing count of the number of times I've told people that the Oxford DNB is available in Britain via home computer fron your local library website if you type in your library card number ... And for those of us from other time zones?................................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horatio2 Posted 14 December , 2014 Share Posted 14 December , 2014 Could I borrow your library card number? Not all of us are clever enough to be professional librarians and live near, or work in a library. I really do not wish to drive a 22 mile round trip to see if the OP is of any interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonharley Posted 14 December , 2014 Share Posted 14 December , 2014 It's not particularly illuminating (I had a read of it a year ago before it was submitted and helped the author identify who was actually who in the painting) - the one point of real interest to my mind is that Admiral of the Fleet "Jacky" Fisher expressed a wish to not be portrayed in the group, which is interesting as his son retained in his papers a number of public criticisms that Fisher hadn't been included. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeldr Posted 15 December , 2014 Share Posted 15 December , 2014 Fisher expressed a wish to not be portrayed in the group Perhaps this was in keeping with his then views - Fisher died in July 1920 and per Bacon's biography his last wishes (actually written before the first of his last three operations) were 'No mourning, no flowers, and the nearest cemetery.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonharley Posted 15 December , 2014 Share Posted 15 December , 2014 It's worth noting that for some reason the NPG had already taken the painting down before Remembrance Day, after being on display for less than six months for the first time in decades. That they haven't made space for it alongside the Generals and Statesmen portraits is very sad. Naval Officers aren't worthy enough apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry_Reeves Posted 15 December , 2014 Share Posted 15 December , 2014 A new theme in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/theme/106740 sJ seaJane Thanks for the link which is interesting. Your contributions are appreciated. TR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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