Ambassadors - Great Britain

Date: 1837

By: Cookes and Ollivier (Firm)

Reference: Eph-G-ROYAL-1837-01

Description: Poster listing the order in which the carriages of the procession would proceed, and who was to sit in each carriage. The carriages were preceded by trumpeters and a squadron of Life Guards. First came the carriages of the foreign resident ministers in the order in which they took precedence in Britain (with the Charge d'Affaires of Mexico first); then the carriages of the foreign ambassadors and Ministers Extraordinary (with Ahmed Pettij Pasha the Sultan's Ambassador first). There followed the carriages of the resident foreign ambassadors (the Turkish Ambassador first). Next came a mounted band of a regiment of the Household Brigade and a detachment of Life Guards. Four carriages of the branches of the Royal Family followed and then another mounted band of a regiment of the Household Brigade. There followed 12 of Her Majesty's carriages coarrying pages, women-in-waiting and other household staff. After another squadron of Life Guards and mounted band of the Household Brigade, there came a large group of mounted household staff, in front of the State Coach carrying the Queen, the Mistress of the Robes (the Duchess of Sutherland) and the Master of the Horse (the Earl of Albemarle), surrounded by other important mounted officers. The route was up Constitution-Hill, along Piccadilly, St James' Street, Pall-Mall, Cockspur-Street, Charing-Cross, Whitehall, Parliament Street, to the western door of Westminster Abbey, and return by the same route in the same order. The royal coats of arms with the lion, unicorn, shield and motto "Dieu et mon droit", is reproduced at the top. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, 1260 x 250 mm. Provenance: Previously held by the Gisborne Museum 70/186. A handwritten note on the verso says that it was found in a desk belonging to Colonel A H Gordon; "all these papers are to go out to N Zealand".

Date: 2004

From: Webb, Murray, 1947- :Digital caricatures

Reference: DX-001-898

Description: Caricature of Richard Fell, British High Commissioner to New Zealand and Governor of Pitcairn Island. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: 1/1-013281-F

Description: Prime Minister Peter Fraser being greeted by Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, on his arrival at Washington DC Airport. From left to right: British Lord Halifax; Brigadier General Patrick J Hurley, Walter Nash, Mr Fraser and Mr Hull. Possibly taken in April 1944. A file print in Pictorial Reference Service (under 920. Fraser, Peter) possibly documents the same visit, and is dated 14th April 1944. Peter Fraser was bringing President Roosevelt reports on United Nations' progress in the South Pacific fighting area; Lord Halifax was the British Ambassador; Brigadier General Hurley was the US Minister to New Zealand and had accompanied the Prime Minister to Washington; Walter Nash was the New Zealand Minister to the United States. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).