George Charles Beresford

George Charles Beresford (10 July 1864 – 21 February 1938) was a British studio photographer, originally from Drumlease, Dromahair, County Leitrim.^[1]

Early life

A member of the Beresford family headed by the

John Beresford, second son of Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone

.

Beresford was sent to Westward Ho! in 1877 and attended the United Services College. Rudyard Kipling's character M'Turk in his collection of school stories set at the College, Stalky & Co., was based on Beresford, whose autobiography Schooldays with Kipling appeared in 1936.

On leaving in 1882 he enrolled at the

Royal Academy

.

Later life

Between 1902 and 1932 he worked from a studio in

National Portrait Gallery

acquired some of his negatives and prints from his former secretary.

Beresford was a close friend of

Sir William Orpen, another Irishman – they produced a number of images of each other.^[4]

Family

Major Henry Marcus Beresford (2 March 1835 – 5 February 1895) and Julia Ellen Maunsell (died 13 October 1923) were married on 10 April 1861. Their children were:

Lt.-Col. Kennedy Beresford (25 January 1862 – 25 April 1943) x Grace Des Barres – 1 Gervais De La Poer Beresford, 2 Sybil Beresford

Marcus Francis Beresford (26 December 1862 – 14 December 1896) x Fanny Catherine Wingfield

George Charles Beresford (10 July 1864 – 21 February 1938)

Henry Lowry Lambert Beresford (November 1869 – 25 September 1932)

Eva Emily Beresford d. 18 February 1960 x Anthony Fritz Maude [5]

Gallery

Virginia Woolf (1902)
Olive Custance (1902)
Charles Ricketts and Charles Haslewood Shannon (1903)
Lord Alfred Douglas (1903)
Joseph Conrad (1904)

References

^ "The School Before its Time". Notes on the text. Kipling.org.uk (10 January 2004). Retrieved on 23 April 2018.
^ "Stalky & Co. Notes on the characters". kiplingsociety.co.uk. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
^ McDonald, Sarah. "In Kiplings Shadow" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 August 2011. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
^ The Beresford Collections. Palimpsest.stanford.edu (16 November 2016). Retrieved on 23 April 2018.
^ Beresford family Archived 29 November 2002 at the Wayback Machine

External links

Media related to George Charles Beresford at Wikimedia Commons

[1] "The School Before its Time". Notes on the text. Kipling.org.uk (10 January 2004). Retrieved on 23 April 2018.

[2] "Stalky & Co. Notes on the characters". kiplingsociety.co.uk. Retrieved 7 September 2018.

[3] McDonald, Sarah. "In Kiplings Shadow" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 August 2011. Retrieved 7 September 2018.

[4] The Beresford Collections. Palimpsest.stanford.edu (16 November 2016). Retrieved on 23 April 2018.

[5] Beresford family Archived 29 November 2002 at the Wayback Machine

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