Holdings: [Full length portrait of Sir Nevil Macready]

Bibliographic Details
Summary:	Full length photograph signed in full with Macready's rank (in ink, right bottom corner) 'Comdr of the Forces, Ireland, 1920-1922'.
Format:	Photo
Language:	English
Published / Created:	[1920-1922].
Subjects:	Macready, Nevil, > Sir, > 1862-1946 Carbon prints > 1920-1930 Portrait photographs > 1920-1930
Notes:	Macready, Sir (Cecil Frederick) Nevil, first baronet (1862–1946), army officer, was born on 7 May 1862 at 6 Wellington Square, Cheltenham, youngest son of the actor William Charles Macready (1793–1873) and his second wife, Cecile Louise Frederica Spencer (d. 1908), a granddaughter of Sir William Beechey the painter. Known as Make-Ready - a nickname echoing the correct pronunciation of his surname - in April 1920 was sent to command the troops in Ireland as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief British forces in the counter-insurgency role against the I.R.A. in the Irish War of Independence (alongside Hamar Greenwood as Chief Secretary). Macready was experienced at crisis management. Physical description: 1 photograph : in mylar, phase box. carbon print ; 28 x 23 cm more

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Call Number	View In	Collection
NPA NM	NPA Reading Room - Appt. only	Photos

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