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An album of approx 100 silver gelatin prints, image size 6 x3.5cm (smallest) to 20.4 x15.3cm (largest), related to the life and family of Sir Frank Arthur Stockdale (1883-1949), including portraits of his daughters Jane and Victoria; portraits of his sons Frank Alleyne and Maurice riding ponies; views of the family house and garden; the family on a trip to the seaside; and hunt scenes with Sir Frank Arthur and his eldest daughter; among others. Housed in sand cloth boards. Sir Frank Arthur Stockdale was a British agriculturist and colonial agricultural administrator. In 1904 he joined the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies as a mycologist and lecturer in agricultural science. He then held a series of agricultural posts in Mauritius and Ceylon, where he was the Director of Agriculture between 1916 and 1929 and a member of the Legislative Council from 1921 to 1929. Together with a group of 10 contact prints related to the Boer War, image size 6.3 x9cm; a silver gelatin print portraying Lieut. Col. George. Julian Selwyn Scovell (1881-1946), image size 17.6 x24.2cm, mounted on card, overall measuring 31.5 x36.4cm, signed by Eric Williams, lower right margin; and 3 additional early silver gelatin prints related to Lieut. Col. Scovell. Lieut. Col. George J.S. Scovell served in the Boer War and later on the General Staff in WWI. He was later appointed Deputy Director-General of Recruiting, Ministry of National Service, 1917-18.