Bibbys Annual Gallery

Lord Strathcona, c1900, (1914). Creator: Mills

Lord Strathcona, c1900, (1914). Portrait of Scottish-Canadian businessman Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal (1820-1914), one of the British Empire's foremost builders and philanthropists. Strathcona was commissioner, governor and principal shareholder of the Hudson's Bay Company, president of the Bank of Montreal, and co-founded the Canadian Pacific Railway. He represented Montreal in the House of Commons of Canada, was Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, and served as chairman of Burmah Oil and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. He was chancellor of McGill and Aberdeen universities. From "Bibby's Annual 1914", edited by Joseph Bibby. [J. Bibby & Sons, London, 1914]

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Captain Oates, on the Terra Nova with the Siberian Ponies, c1911, (1914)

Captain Oates, on the "Terra Nova" with the Siberian Ponies, c1911, (1914). British Antarctic explorer Lawrence Titus Oates (1880-1912) with expedition ponies and dogs. Captain Robert Falcon Scott, leader of the Terra Nova Expedition, together with Oates and two others, reached the geographic South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that the Norwegian expedition under Amundsen had beaten them to their objective by a month. Oates, suffering from gangrene and frostbite, walked from his tent into a blizzard. His death is seen as an act of heroic self-sacrifice - aware that his ill health was compromising his three companions chances of survival, he chose certain death. Delayed by blizzards, and running out of supplies, Scott and the remainder of his team died at the end of March. From "Bibby's Annual 1914", edited by Joseph Bibby. [J. Bibby & Sons, London, 1914]

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The Soul and Evil, late 19th-early 20th century, (1914). Creator: James Clark

The Soul and Evil, late 19th-early 20th century, (1914). Spiritus Adversus Carnem, allegorical scene depicting a winged soul or spirit being grappled with by the personification of Evil or the flesh'. To be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace, Romans VIII, 6. Painting in the Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston. From "Bibby's Annual 1914", edited by Joseph Bibby. [J. Bibby & Sons, London, 1914]

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