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- Permanent Link:
- https://digital.soas.ac.uk/AA00001740/00001
Material Information
- Title:
- Ann Phipps photograph albums
- Added title page title:
- Ann Phipps collection
- Creator:
- Phipps, Ann, 1907-1992 ( compiler )
- Donor:
- Thomas, Charlotte
- Publication Date:
- 1928-1934
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 4 photo-albums
Notes
- Abstract:
- The albums were compiled by Ann Phipps, a niece of the British diplomat Sir Miles Lampson (1st Baron Killearn), containing photos, documents, and ephemera - souvenirs of stays in China in 1928-29 and 1932-34 when Sir Miles was British Minister to China ( ,, )
- Abstract:
- Three albums of Ann Phipps' time in China, 1928-1934 and Egypt, c.1934. Includes photographs of British Peking Legation; social life in Peking and Cairo. -- One scrapbook album of Ann Phipps' life, c.1900-c.1930s, includes photographs of Phipps as a child.
- Biographical:
- Ann Phipps was the niece of Sir Miles Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn, British Minister to China between 1926 and 1933 and High Commissioner to Egypt and Sudan, 1934. -- Margaret Ann Patricia Phipps was born on St Patrick's Day, 17th March 1907. Her father, Edmund Bamfylde Phipps, married Margaret Percy Phipps in 1906 (although they both had the same surname, they were not related except through their marriage). The couple lived at 21 Carlyle Square, Chelsea, in London, where Ann was born. Ann had two younger brothers. Ann's father Edmund worked for the Board of Education. Her mother, a Liberal, was involved in local politics and eventually became Mayor of Chelsea. -- Ann attended Glendower School and then St Paul's Girls' School. She "came out" as a debutante in 1926. The following year she travelled to the USA to visit relations there (her maternal grandmother, Dame Jessie Phipps, was an American), returning to the UK in March 1928. In August that year, she travelled to Peking on the Trans-Siberian Railway to visit her mother's sister, Rachel Mary Hele Phipps. Ann's aunt was married to Sir Miles Lampson, British Minister to China from 1926 to 1933. They had three children, Graham, Mary and Margaret. Ann returned to the UK by ship in October 1929, and took up a post - at first in a voluntary capacity - at Chatham House in London. -- Ann became seriously ill in December 1931 with peritonitis, but recovered and returned to China in December 1932 at the request of her uncle, Sir Miles Lampson. Lampson had been widowed in 1930, and he needed Ann's help to carry out social duties and manage household affairs at the British Legation. In January 1930, Ann's aunt Rachel had left Peking for England accompanied by her son, Graham. En route, Rachel became very ill and was admitted to hospital in Hong Kong where she died a few days later from suspected meningitis. She is buried in the Happy Valley Cemetery in Hong Kong. -- Ann enjoyed the busy social life of the Legation, entertaining friends and visitors there and going on trips both in China and further afield. In July 1933, she visited Japan with Miss Leatham, a friend of Sir Miles. In December 1933, Sir Miles resigned his appointment as British Minister to take up a new post as High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan the following year. Accompanied by his two daughters, Mary and Margaret, and his neice, Ann Phipps, he departed from Shanghai on the SS Ranchi. -- Ann, returned to London where she met and married John Holmes R.N. in 1935. She died in 1992.
- Donation:
- Donated by Charlotte Thomas in August 2009
- Citation/Reference:
- Sir Miles W. Lampson, better known as the Baron Killearn, British Minister to China
- General Note:
- VIAF (name authority) : Killearn, Miles Lampson, Baron, 1880-1964 : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/69057717
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS University of London
- Holding Location:
- SOAS University of London
- Rights Management:
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