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Description: | 4th January 1927
A view of portraits loaned by Lord Moynihan to the City Art Gallery in 1927. On the left is the Lady Mayoress, Ella Lupton, beside her is Viscount Lascelles, then the Lord Mayor, Alderman Hugh Lupton, then Lord Moynihan, an avid art collector and an Eminent Consultant Surgeon at Leeds General Infirmary, finally, Councillor G. Lambert. Lord Moynihan was a noted authority on abdominal surgery. Sir Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan was knighted by King George V in 1912 and given the title of Lord Moynihan in 1929. In 1914 he acquired Carr Manor off Stonegate Road, Meanwood. He instigated the use of sterile rubber gloves in the performance of surgery in 1903 and took a team of Surgeons to the Western Front in 1914. In 1926 Lord Moynihan became president of the Royal College of Surgeons which he had been instrumental in founding in 1920. Part of the exhibition loaned by Lord Moynihan features the engraving of samuel Cousins (1801-1887) described in the catalogue as 'the last of the great English Mezzotinters'. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Carr Manor Lord Mayor Samuel Cousins Lord Moynihan Lady Mayoress Viscount Lascelles | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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