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First page of Calderon’s draft letter to the press, 5 October 1914
Fragment of a letter from George’s father to his maternal grandmother, 2 December 1868
Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
Foxwold, by James W. Herald, c.1894
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
Toy theatre proscenium by George Calderon and C.E. Pym, Christmas 1914
The Third Battle of Krithia
Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
Jim Corbet c. 1914
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
Officers of the 9th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, April 1915.
Nina Astley (Corbet), c.1917
‘Marae’ — pencil sketch by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
Kittie Calderon and ‘Jones’ 1899
‘Le bain de Loti’ 1906, photographed probably by Alexander Vasilieff
Kittie Calderon ‘keeping an eye on’ Pym and Lubbock children at Foxwold, c.1912
K.N. Das Gupta and Margaret Mitchell in an Indian Dramatic Society production of The Maharani of Arakan, 1913?
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
First Battle of Ypres, 29 October 1914
George Calderon c.1901
Device designed by Kittie Calderon for covers of George Calderon Selected Works
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
Commemorative Poem, 2015 © John Pym, 2015
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
George Calderon’s Attestation
George and Kittie Calderon 1905
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
Calderon family photograph, 1 January 1894. Clockwise: seated on floor George Calderon, Jack Calderon, Marge Calderon, Fred Calderon, Alfred Merigon Calderon, Evelyn Calderon, seated next to table Clara Calderon.
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906Related
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A terrific find
Please read Katy George’s and my Comments at top right of the blog for the background to this letter, which Katy discovered recently amongst some papers of Mrs Raikes in a charity shop in Deal, Kent. New letters of Kittie … Continue reading
Posted in George Calderon, Personal Commentary, Timeline
Tagged Alexander Pushkin, Captain Charles Evelyn Pym, Downton Abbey, Evey Pym, Evgenii Onegin, Foxwold, George Calderon, Gladys Raikes, Highclere, Johnnie Pym, Katy George, Kittie Calderon, Oxford, Percy Lubbock, St Hilda's Hall, St Petersburg, Tom Raikes, Trinity College Oxford, Violet Pym, William Rothenstein
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9 January 1915: Commission
This is the final state of George Calderon’s application for a commission: The writing in red ink across the left hand side of the form reads: ‘Temporary Commission as Lieutenant in 9 Battln Oxford & Bucks Light Inftr & order … Continue reading
Posted in George Calderon, Timeline
Tagged anti-suffragism, Anton Chekhov, Brian Harrison, commissions, Coote Hedley, Francis Newbolt, George Calderon, Henry Newbolt, Julia Bush, military interpreters, Oxford, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, The Great War, Trinity College Oxford, World War I
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Determined
Calderon’s approach to issues of the day (Russia, suffragism, unionism) was to study them in depth, analyse them, then decide what was the right course of action for him and stick to it through thick and thin. This was why … Continue reading
George Calderon on wikipedia
George Calderon TLS blog post
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George Calderon: a tribute
As I have written before, the question everyone asks me is: ‘Who is George Calderon?’ Perhaps unconsciously, some people seem to intonate this as a rhetorical question implying: ‘Why are you spending years of your life writing about a person … Continue reading →