Figure 1.-- Here we see what seems to be two French children as the portrait was taken in France. The photographer was Ordinaire of Dinard [Brittany, France]. The portrait is undated, but it looks to us was taken in the 1880s. A pencilled inscription on the reverse of the mount identifies the sitters. The girl is Florence Drury-Lowe; the boy, who is wearing a sailor suit, is fittingly identified as “Admiral Sydney”.

Here we see what seems to be two French children as the portrait was taken in France. The photographer was Ordinaire of Dinard [Brittany, France]. The portrait is undated, but it looks to us was taken in the 1880s. A pencilled inscription on the reverse of the mount identifies the sitters. The girl is Florence Drury-Lowe; the boy, who is wearing a sailor suit, is fittingly identified as “Admiral Sydney”. Notice the cap he is wearing. That seems to be more of a French than an English style. Perhaps he is wearing it because they are on a trip to France. His sister seems to be wearing a white pinafore under her jacket. The inscription is prophetic – Sydney Drury-Lowe later entered the Royal Navy, rising to the rank of Vice-Admiral. Since the woman he married when he grew up was a granddaughter of both the Earl of Wemyss and the Earl of Albemarle, he appears in the Peerage. His full name was Sydney Robert Drury-Lowe and he was the son of Colonel Robert Henry Curzon Drury-Lowe. He married Clare Susan Charteris (1909). She was the daughter of Captain Hon. Fredrick William Charteris and Lady Louisa Keppel. Vice-Admiral Sydney Drury-Lowe died January 24, 1945.

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