Address to the Revd Leonard Shafto Orde MA, St Paul's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh, May 1864.
Marshall Wane,photographers.
An album of 267 albumen prints presented to the Rev. Leonard Shafto Orde, M.A., rector of St. Paul's Scottish Episcopal Church in Edinburgh, as a token of appreciation, after he had decided to resign his post in 1864. The portraits include members of the Episcopal clergy in Edinburgh and presumably members of the congregation of St. Paul's Church. The church is now known as St Paul's and St George's Church.
Album also includes printed and manuscript documents relating to attempts to persuade Rev. Orde to stay in post and a press clipping from the Edinburgh Evening Courant for January 28 1865, describing the presentation of the album ("the address") to Rev. Orde and a portrait of him to Rev. Orde's wife.
The photographers are unknown apart from one print attributed to the Edinburgh firm of Marshall Wane.
MacKinnon collection, jointly acquired with the National Galleries of Scotland, with assistance from the Scottish Government, National Lottery Heritage Fund and the Art Fund.
Title taken from metal inset to the top cover of the binding.
Orde, Leonard Shafto, 1807-1895.
St. Paul's and St. George's Episcopal Church (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Scotland Edinburgh.