Caroline Simpson Collection

A. J. Otway Esq. MP, photographed 1869? / McLean & Co., photographers & miniature painters

[c1869]

1 carte-de-visite : b.&w, 10.3 x 6.2 cm.

Inscribed in pencil on album page below image, in Thomas Wingate's hand: J.A. Otway Esqr / M.P. / Under Secy. of State for Foreign Affairs 1869. Photographer's name printed below image: McLean & Co. Photo London. Photographer's name printed on verso: McLean & Co / Photographers & / Miniature Painters / 7 Haymarket / London S.W. Pencilled no.: 12239

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politicians
Otway, Arthur John, Sir, 1820-1912.

CSL&RC PIC 2015/6: Eastwood album no.2

This photograph is one item within a small album containing 97 carte-de-visite photographs. The album appears to have been compiled by Thomas Wingate (1807-1869), sketcher, amateur photographer and army officer. Wingate's pencilled identifications appear on the album page below many of the photographs and the album includes a number of photographs taken by Wingate himself. The album also includes some photographs of Wingate's former fellow officers from the 2nd or Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot in which Wingate served from 1835 to 1846, stationed from 1835 until 1842 in India.
The subject of this photograph, Arthur John Otway, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in August 1820, fourth son of Admiral Sir Robert Waller Otway, Baronet, and his wife Clementina nee Holloway. Otway was one of Wingate's fellow officers in India, appointed Lieutenant in the Queen's Royals in February 1841, promoted from Ensign in the 51st Regiment. The 51st was at that time stationed in Tasmania and Otway sailed to Bombay from Hobart, via Sydney, to join his new regiment. He retired from the army in September 1846, studied law at the Middle Temple in London and was called to the Bar in 1850. He later entered the British parliament as a Liberal MP for Stafford. In December 1868 he was appointed to the post of Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in W E Gladstone's first government, serving for three years in the post. He succeeded to the Otway baronetcy in 1881 which became extinct on his death in London in June 1912. [MM, October 2017]

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Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection ; CSL&RC PIC 2015/6

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