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Freeland brothers Milard and Joe German boys clothes: chronology -- the 1900s sailor suits
Figure 1.-- Here we have Freeman-Thomas boys, Gerard Frederick Freeman-Thomas (1893-1914) and his brother Inigo Brassey Freeman-Thomas, (1899-1979). The photograph was taken in 1905 outside the family estate. Gerard wears a boater with a single breasted suit and lace collar. This may be his school uniform. He would have been about 13 years old. His younger brother was about 6-years old. He wears a fancy blouse with what looks a neck tie--a rare combination at the time. We think it may be an illusion. Other images suggest it is just part of a fancy blouse which has a wide collar--clink on the link and tell us what you think. Inigo also wears knee pants and long white stockings. Notice the low-cut shoes, they were much more common in Britain than America at the time.
Freeman-Thomas Boys (England, 1905)
Marquess of Willingdon was a title in the Peerage created for the Liberal politician and colonial governor Freeman Freeman-Thomas (1936). He had personal contacts with bith Prime-Miister Asquith abd King Gdeorge V. Hev has posts in Undia (beginning 1913). He was appointed Governor-General of Canada (1926-31). This was a fairly quiet period in a stable country, then largely independent. Then he go a far different assiugnment -- Viceroy of India (1931-36). This was a far different situation. He was thrust back into India's turbulent politics and had to deal with the rising, but totally unothodoc star in Imperial politics--Mahatma Gandhi India by this time had been given a degree of home rule, but Gandhi and the Congress Party were moving toward independencer. Following instructions from the India Office, Freeman Thomas not only arresrd Gandhi and outlawed Congress, but he rounded up all members of the Working Committee and the Provincial Committees and imprisoned them as wll. He also banned Congress youth organizations. Some 80,000 Indian activists were inprisoned. The sction affected Congress' boycotts and demonstratiins, but the Indian people became increasingly arrested and Gandhi's stature only rose. Apparently Parliament rewarded Freeman-Thomas for the stressful 5 years of dealing with the Mahatma by granting him a peerage. Freeman-Thomas married the Hon. Marie Brassey, the daughter of Thomas Brassey--creating family connections with the Brassey family. Here we have Freeman-Thomas boys, Gerard Frederick Freeman-Thomas (1893-1914) and his brother Inigo Brassey Freeman-Thomas, (1899-1979). The photograph was taken in 1905 outside the family estate. Gerard wears a boater with a single breasted suit and lace collar. This may be his school uniform. He would have been about 13 years old. His younger brother was about 6-years old. He wears a fancy blouse with what looks a neck tie--a rare combination at the time. We think it may be an illusion. Other images suggest it is just part of a fancy blouse which has a wide collar. He also wears knee pants and long white stockings. Notice the low-cut shoes, they were much more common in Britain than America at the time. Gerard was killed in the opening months of Workd War I. Freeman-Thomas died (1941). He was was succeeded by his only surviving son, Inigo las the 2nd Marquess of Willingdon. Inigo was a soldier and also served as Liberal Chief Whip in the House of Lords from 1948 to 1949. Though married three times, he was childless and all the titles became extinct upon his death (1979).
