Robert Elwes
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Lieutenant Robert Hamond Elwes was a British Army officer who was killed in action during the First Boer War. As a junior officer in the Grenadier Guards regiment, Elwes fought in the Battle of Laing'
Portrait of Lieut. R. H. Elwes Wood engraving published in The Illustrated London News, 30 April 1881
His father: Robert Elwes, of Congham, senior, (1819–1878)
Elizabeth Thompson's "Floreat Etona!".
Floreat Etona!
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Floreat Etona! is an 1882 painting by Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler. The title is the motto of Eton College, "may Eton flourish". The painting depicts an incident that took place in 1881, during the
Robert Elwes
…Battle of Laing's Nek where he died while leading a cavalry charge against Boer forces. His death was portrayed in Elizabeth Thompson's 1898 painting "Floreat Etona!". Elwes was born in 1856 to Robert Elwes and Mary Frances Lucas at Congham House, near King's Lynn in Norfolk. He was educated at Eton College. After…
Lady Elizabeth Southerden Butler by Lady Elizabeth Southerden Butler