Mary Anne Hall and her Grandchildren, Click on the photo to enlarge it This is the fourth of a series of photos taken at Tenby beach of the Hall family and members of the Sultan family. The date is 1912. The lady looking like the duchess in Alice in wonderland is Mary Anne , Great Great Grandmother Hall. Our Great Great Grandfather, William Hall-Riddick, a sea captain, was either unfaithful to her or left her for another woman. Mary Anne's daughters, Lucy, May and Gertrude became suffragettes and her son, who she sent to schools in Bonn, Freiburg and Schwehn became a Fellow of the Royal Society and married another suffragette, Rosalie. Gertrude Hall, her oldest daughter, went to India and married the secretary to the Maharajah of Gwalior . They had three children together: the boy on the left, with the worried expression on his face, the boy in the middle, and the pretty girl in the chemise; Edith Sultan, who is looking at her grandmother, who in turn seems oblivious
Left wing commentary from the heart and the head