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Summary

James Lafayette: English: Sir Sidney Arthur Taylor Rowlatt. (

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Artist

Lafayette, Ltd.

James Lafayette (1853–1923)
Alternative names	Birth name: James Stack Lauder
Description	Irish photographer and professional photographer
Date of birth/death	22 January 1853	20 August 1923
Location of birth/death	Dublin	Bruges
Work period	1898 –1923
Work location	Dublin; London
Authority file	: Q6137708 VIAF: 14147118250326341640 ISNI: 0000000004702537 ULAN: 500356982 Oxford Dict.: 65307 GND: 1124104100

Title

English: Sir Sidney Arthur Taylor Rowlatt.

Description

English: A portrait photograph of Sir Sidney Arthur Taylor Rowlatt (20 July 1862 – 1 March 1945), an English lawyer and judge, best remembered for his controversial presidency of the Rowlatt committee, a sedition committee appointed in 1918 by the British Indian Government to evaluate the links between political terrorism in India, especially Bengal and the Punjab, and the German government and the Bolsheviks in Russia. The committee gave rise to the Rowlatt Act, an extension of the Defence of India Act 1915.

Date

before 15 November 1929 (its date of acquisition).

Medium

Dimensions

height: 14.3 cm (5.6 in); width: 9.8 cm (3.8 in).

Collection

Harvard Law Library

	Native name	Harvard Law School Library
	Parent institution	Harvard Law School
	Location	Harvard University, Langdell Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
	Coordinates	42° 22′ 40.59″ N, 71° 07′ 06.38″ W
	Established	1817
	Website	hls.harvard.edu/library
	Authority file	: Q18719675 VIAF: 142893983 ISNI: 000000011940971X LCCN: n83234616 NLA: 35176601 GND: 1011889-5 WorldCat

Current location

Legal Portrait Collection.

Accession number

card catalog no.: 29.112 F; HOLLIS no.: 006846685; record identifier: olvwork245832.

Object history

Acquired on 15 November 1929.

Inscriptions

bottom right-hand corner: signed "Lafayette".

References

Source/Photographer

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