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Title:
Ensign Edmund Gilling Maynard / Thomas Wingate (attrib.)
Creator:
Wingate, Thomas, 1807-1869.
Date:
[c1843]
Format:
1 watercolour drawing on paper: b&w ; 13.1 x 8.9 cm.
Inscription:
Caption below image in ink: A Ditto (= a Connaught Ranger, the caption given to another sketch pasted alongside this image in the Wingate album); identified below caption in pencil as 'Maynard'.
Subject:
portraits
army officers
top hats
walking sticks
Maynard, Edmund Gilling, 1821-1896.
Series:
Wingate album
Description:
This small watercolour sketch is pasted in on page 17 of a leather-bound folio album containing 62 sketches and watercolours and 33 early photographs, many signed by or attributable to Thomas Wingate (1807-69), former British army officer and second husband of Eleanor Terry nee Rouse (1813-1898).
The subject of the sketch, Ensign Edmund Gilling Maynard, was born in June 1821 at Harsley Hall, Northallerton, Yorkshire, and was a member of an old county family. He went up to Gonville and Cauis College, Cambridge, in May 1840 from where he entered the 88th Regiment (the Connaught Rangers) as an ensign in December 1841. He remained with the Connaught Rangers for the whole of his army career, promoted to lieutenant in 1846, captain in 1854, brevet major in 1855 and major in 1857. He served in the Crimean War, including the siege of Sebastopol . He later served in India and was made brevet lieutenant-colonel in April 1859 and retired as lieutenant-Colonel in November 1860. He died in San Jose, California, in June 1896.
Wingate's sketch probably dates to mid-1843 during the time that Wingate was on detachment from his own regiment (the 2nd or Queen's Royals) and was serving in the British army recruiting service, stationed at Glasgow from April 1843 to November 1844. In 1843-1844 the Connaught Rangers were stationed in Malta with a depot in Stirling, Scotland. [MM, June 2017]
Provenance:
The Miriam & Ian Hamilton Collection
Source:
Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection ; CSL&RC PIC 2015/3: Wingate album
Rights:
You may save or print this image for research and study. If you wish to use it for any other purposes, you must contact
Museums of History NSW
to request permission.
Material Type:
Picture
Record number:
52370
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