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Collection: wellcomecollection.wellcomecollection
Description: The Hon. Hubert Howard was killed by 'friendly fire' at the end of the Battle of Omdurman, Sudan, 2 September 1898: see P.F. D'Arcy, Laboratory on the Nile, New York 1999, pp. 24-25 (photograph of gravestone) The present drawing by his father might have been made as an idea for a tomb effigy.
Collection: wellcomecollection.wellcomecollection
Description: (John) William Watson, poet; 'Watson chose the sonnet as a means of upbraiding Britain for its unjust actions in the Sudan and for its weak, indecisive response to Russia's hostile moves in Afghanistan' (ODNB); knighted in 1917 for poems praising Lloyd George's conduct of the War; opponent of obscurantism in the Modern Movement. Head and shoulders to right looking to front, with large moustache.
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