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Bullingdon Club, Oxford University 1883
1883, Photograph
Bullingdon Club, Oxford University 1883
Bullingdon Club, Oxford University 1883
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Title
Bullingdon Club, Oxford University 1883
Description
One hand coloured sepia photograph inside a paper mount of the Bullingdon club. The men are all wearing evening dress. Douglas Haig seen standing second from the right.
The mount has been hand illuminated with "Bullingdon Club 1883". Additionally the names of those present are written at the bottom.
Date
1883
Type
Photograph
Location
Museum of Edinburgh
Accession number
HH4303-28-81
The Bullingdon Club was, and remains today, an Oxford undergraduate society composed of young men who were fond of riding and hunting, often from aristocratic or wealthy backgrounds. Douglas Haig seen standing second from the right.
Other members are : Lord.H. Grosvenor, R.W.G. Leveson Gower, C.L' Liddell, Lord H.C. Bentwick, Hon. O.H. Wyllop, D. C. Guthrie, E.G. Colebrooke, Hon C.J.R. Trefusis, R. Lawson, N.E.W. Stainton, Lord Weymouth, H. B. Portman, J. Oator, J. Macpherson- Grant, J.L. Dugdale, A. Bouchier, D.H. Barry, J.H. Hornsby, M.R Leeson;Marshall, Earl of Norbury, J. Carberry;Evans, F.H. Sitwell, Hon. S.F. Ornsby;Core, Lord Kenyan.
Douglas Haig was born in Charlotte Square, Edinburgh on the 9th June, 1861 to John Haig, the whisky distiller and Rachel Veitch. The young Douglas would spend the majority of his youth at the main family home of Cameron House in Fife before being educated at Clifton College, Bristol and then Brasenose College, Oxford.
Douglas Haig was commissioned into the 7th Hussars following his attendance the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, thus beginning a military career which would see several tours of India, action in both the war in the Sudan and South Africa before rising up the ranks to be posted as the head of the Aldershot Command prior to the First World War.
Douglas Haig went to war with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in August, 1914 in command of the I Corps. In December of 1915 following Sir John French's departure Haig took up the post as Commander-in-Chief of the BEF.
After the war Douglas Haig retired from the army in 1920, was created the 1st Earl Haig and spent the rest of his life seeing to the well-being of ex-servicemen.
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