British sailors throwing overboard luxuries, North Sea, First World War Size:Large: 7 x 5in Edmondes was clerk to the

Edmondes was clerk to the Privy Council of James I of England

The frontlet was composed of a piece of rigid wire netting covered with black material which passed over the head and allowed a small loop to appear on the forehead - this was designed to ease the strain on the hair caused by wearing the steeple headdress at an angle 45 degrees from the perpendicular

The menagerie moved to Regent's Park in 1834

Mivart's Hotel

'Parus cristatus'

British sailors throwing overboard luxuries, North Sea, First World War Size:Large: 7 x 5in Edmondes was clerk to theBritish sailors throwing overboard luxuries, North Sea, First World War, 1914. Illustration from The Great War by HW Wilson, Vol I, (London, 1914).