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The Orpheus Fountain, outside the Cranbrook Museum of Art, is the iconic image of the Cranbrook Educational Community. The sculptures are by Carl Milles, who was a Sculptor in Residence at Cranbrook. The museum building was designed by Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen.
Sculpture group of "Orpheus and Cerberus" by Thomas Crawford (American). Signed and dated Rome 1843. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
17th Nov 1935 Vienna State Opera Orpheus conducted by Bruno Walter with -
Orpheus - Kerstin Thorborg [1896-1970]
Euridice - Jarmila Novotná [1907-1994]
Orpheus and Cerberus (1519) by Baccio Bandinelli in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence. It shows the naked Orpheus who calmed Cerberus, the hound of Hades, by playing the lyre - according to Virgil.
Captain of Company F, 83rd PA. Infantry
Colonel of 83rd PA. Infantry
Lost his right leg in the Battle of the Wilderness
From "A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans", written & compiled by William E. Connelley
Orpheus S. Woodward
COL. ORPHEUS S. WOODWARD. The career of Colonel Woodward, who is past fourscore and is one of the most honored and respected citizens of Neosho Falls, represents a broad track of useful effort and service, beginning as a teacher, changing to the dangerous occupation as a soldier in the Civil war, subsequently as a rancher, business man, public official in Kansas, where he has lived the greater part of the last half century.
Colonel Woodward was born in Erie County, Pennsylvania, May 1, 1835. The Woodwards were colonial Americans, tracing their original home to England. It is probable that the first point of settlement in America was in Connecticut. Oliver Woodward, grandfather of Colonel Woodward, was born April 12, 1772 lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois, and died at Barry, Illinois, about 1847.
Ebenezer Woodward, father of Colonel Woodward, was born in Ohio April 16, 1804. He grew up in his native state, was married in Erie County, Pennsylvania, where he spent many years as a farmer and carpenter and finally retired to San Diego, California, where he died January 25, 1882. In early life he became a whig, and from that party transferred his allegiance to the republican organization when it came into existence. He was a very active worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church and for many years a pillar in his local society. Ebenezer Woodward married Cornelia Prindle, who was born in Erie County, Pennsylvania, May 31, 1814, and died at Harbor Creek in the same county December 17, 1855. Her children were: Augustus G., who was born May 1, 1833, and is now a retired blacksmith living at Tulare, California. The second in the family is Col. O. S. Woodward. Caroline, born August 4, 1839, married Charles Keller, a rancher at Kaweah, California. Mary Cornelia, born March 23, 1848, was married April 8, 1866, to Robert Cowden, a farmer now deceased, and she now spends her time partly in California and partly in Pennsylvania with her children. Georgia is living at Los Angeles, the widow of John Desmond a farmer.
Orpheus S. Woodward spent his early life in that interesting and historic section of Northwestern Pennsylvania where he was born. He attended the public schools, also the Waterford Academy and the Northwestern State Normal School at Edinboro, Pennsylvania. His work as a schoolmaster was done through portions of about five years.
In 1861 Colonel Woodward enlisted in the Eighty-third Regiment of Pennsylvania Infantry. The record of that regiment during the war is practically the record of Colonel Woodward's personal service. He was in nearly all the important battles of the Fifth Army Corps. He was at Antietam, at Fredericksburg, at Chancellorsville, at Gettysburg, the battle of the Wilderness, Gaines Mills, Malvern Hill, and during the hottest of the fighting in the wilderness in May, 1864, he was wounded and being incapacitated for further service was given an honorable discharge in the following September.
At the close of his military career he returned to Waterford, Pennsylvania, and while living there was twice elected a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature, being chosen on the republican ticket. Colonel Woodward came to Kansas in 1868. His first location was at Humboldt, but he soon afterwards located on a ranch in Woodson County and directed its operations for a couple of years. He then came to Neosho Falls, and from the spring of 1870 for eight years was in the hardware business. Colonel Woodward then returned East to Erie, Pennsylvania, and spent three years in that city and in Youngstown, Ohio, but with that exception has been a resident of Neosho Falls for over forty-five years. Since locating there in 1883 he has given his time chiefly to the management of his farms and varied business interests. Colonel Woodward owns a farm of 420 acres near Yates Center and another place of 21 acres on the Neosho River, also in Woodson County. One of the landmarks of Neosho Falls is the Woodward home, situated on five acres of ground at Oak and Eighth streets.
His presence in Neosho Falls has not been without corresponding benefit to the community. For many years he was a member of the school board, served several terms as mayor, and also as a member of the council. He acted several times as master of Tuscan Lodge, No. 82, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and is past commander of Neosho Falls Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and belongs to the military order of the Loyal Legion. During the administration of Governor Humphrey Colonel Woodward served as a member of the Kansas State Senate. He was brevetted brigadier general.
About the time he went into the army Colonel Woodward was happily married at Waterford, Pennsylvania, September 9, 1861, to Miss Marietta Himrod. She was of an old and prominent family of Western Pennsylvania. She was born at Waterford February 12, 1837 and died at Neosho Falls, Kansas, April 11, 1887. Her parents were David and Abigail (Patten) Himrod. Her father died at Waterford, Pennsylvania, November 23, 1877, and her mother at Chicago, Illinois, January 29, 1899. Colonel Woodward has three children. Anna Cornelia presides over the domestic arrangements of Colonel Woodward and is also a very capable business woman and has the supervision of her father's farm. Kate Abigail, who lives at Pewaukee, Wisconsin, is the widow of George Franklin Clark, who followed farming during his lifetime. Mary Alice first married James S. McDonald, a publisher, and is now the wife of Joseph B. Ruff, who is superintendent of a department of the firm of Hirsch-Stein Company at Hammond, Indiana.
The Neosho Falls Post, Thursday, July 3, 1919, Pg 1
Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward
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Our distinguished citizen and our good friend has been called hence, and life after a great loss can never be quite the same again.
But it is a genuine consolation to recount the leading characteristics of this loyal and courageous soldier, this manly man, this refined and cultivated gentleman. We have been so fortunate in having such a character among us through the long years. It is such a high privilege to pay such tribute as we may.
Orpheus S. Woodward was born May 1, 1835, at Harborville Pennsylvania. He was fortunate in his birth in a sterling Christian home. He had good educational advantages for the time, and had achieved success as a teacher when the first call came for the Civil War in April of ’61. He enlisted at once as a private on the ninety day provision. Then the 83rd Pennsylvania regiment was organized, he was selected as a captain in this unit, and was married in September of that year to Marietta Himrod, a woman of rare quality and a war-bride most worthy of her chosen man.
Captain Woodward went at once to the front after this great event, and during the war participated in a score of great battles. After Gettysburg he was promoted to a colonelcy, and during the battle of the Wilderness he was so severely wounded that the amputation of his leg was necessary. He was brevetted brigadier-general for his conspicuous courage and efficiency, and upon his return to private life he heard the call of Kansas, and engaged in farming on Cherry Creek in this county in ’68. He later secured a place on Owl Creek, and also entered into the hardware business at Toronto and Neosho Falls with D. W. Finney, who had also served in the Civil War, and until his death two years since, one of our most prominent citizens.
In ’71 the Woodward family moved into our favored town and became at once a strong factor in the life of the community. The business prospered, but after some years was sold out to Mr. Finney in order to enter into a better opening in Pennsylvania. But the family returned again to Neosho Falls, and though Mrs. Woodward passed on thirty years age, the three daughters remained. Miss Kate and Miss Alice went into homes of their own in the process of time, but Miss Anna has been her father’s constant companion and stay, and the home has stood during all this period for high thought and fine feeling and cordial hospitality.
This latter part of Col. Woodward’s life has been spent in farming interests and cattle breeding, and he was very fond of his garden, his poultry and his bees and his flowers. He was a notable figure in the politics of the state, and served with honor, as he did in all things, at one time in the State Senate. And in all local matters his fine judgment and ready action could always be depended upon. The more recent years were filled with accession of pain and suffering, but he strove to keep in touch with public matters with all his native courage, and he endured his deprivations with such a fine spirit that those who tried to strengthen and cheer him received fare more than they ever gave.
And finally the time came, surrounded by the most loving and efficient care, for his long sleep. The sun goes down at the close of the day, but the night is full of stars. It was an unusually long and distinctive life, and all life has been greatly enriched thereby. He sleeps beneath the flag he loved, and it is our flag, too. He was ready to make the supreme sacrifice for his country, and we enjoy the benefits he gained for us. How shall we best perpetuate the vital forces he employed?
A very simple and appropriate funeral service was held at the home on last Sunday afternoon at five o’clock, and it was largely attended by old and devoted friends from Yates Center, Iola, Emporia and Independence, as well as an interested concourse from town and country side.
The casket, draped in the Loyal Legion flag, was placed in the reception hall in a bower of luxuriant flowers redolent of the general sympathy, and Miss Florence L. Snow, out of her long intimacy with the family, read the nineteen Psalm as her choice of the finest expression for the occasion, following it with a brief appreciation of the beloved character.
The beautiful song “Calling Me” as rendered by John McCormick, was played on the victrola, and after the last look into the face to be seen upon the earth no more, interment was made in the Cedarvale cemetery. The impressive ceremony of the Grand Army of the Republic was used at the beautifully prepared grave, conducted by Commander Jackson of the Neosho Falls Post and Chaplain Daymude of the Yates Center Post. Every heart was especially touched by the part taken by Col. W. L. Parsons, so long the heart-friend and comrade of Col. Woodward, his voice trembling with his emotion, and his face reflecting the light that shines from the other side. Taps was sounded by Mr. Ray Pyke in the uniform of the late war, and Orpheus S. Woodward waits the reveille of the morning.
The two surviving daughters, Miss Anna Woodward and Mrs. Alice Ruff, who has returned to the old town for a permanent home, with one grand-child, Mr. Ben Clark of Pewaukee, Wisconsin, were all the immediate relatives present at the obsequies. Mr. Clark has but recently returned from war service in France, and another grandchild, Miss Helen McDonald has also arrived safely on this side after two years Red Cross hospital work overseas, being like her mother, Mrs. Ruff, a registered nurse. Miss Marietta Clark, is still in University training. What a blessed thing it is to live in a little good town like this where we are all like one big family and take an endless interest in each other. F.L.S.
Pages 882-884, from History of Allen and Woodson Counties, Kansas: embellished with portraits of well known people of these counties, with biographies of our representative citizens, cuts of public buildings and a map of each county / Edited and Compiled by L. Wallace Duncan and Chas. F. Scott. Iola Registers, Printers and Binders, Iola, Kan.: 1901
ORPHEUS S. WOODWARD
ORPHEUS S. WOODWARD, who is practically living a retired life in Neosho Falls, has met with creditable success in business, his honorable career having gained for him the high regard of all with whom he has been associated. He was born in Erie county, Pennsylvania, on the 1st of May, 1835, and is a son of Ebenezer Woodward, whose birth occurred in New York on the 15th of April, 1804. When a young man the father went to Pennsylvania and was there married to Miss Cornelia Prindle, who was born in Erie county, May 31, 1814. Through the greater part of his business career he carried on agricultural pursuits. The wife died December 17, 1855, at the age of forty-one years, and in 1876 he went to California where his death occurred July 25, 1882, when he was seventy-eight years of age. This worthy couple were the parents of seven children, five of whom are now living, namely: Augustus G., a resident of Tulare, California; Mrs. Caroline Keller, a resident of Oregon; Mary, the wife Robert Cowden, who resides on the old homestead in Pennsylvania; Mrs. Georgia Desmond of Santa Paula, Cal., and O. S., of this review.
In taking up the personal history of Mr. Woodward we present to our leaders one of the most prominent men of Woodson county. In this community not to know him is to argue one's self unknown. No event of special importance occurred to vary the routine of farm life for him in his youth. He was reared on the old homestead in Pennsylvania and pursued his studies in the country schools, completing his education in the Academy of Waterford, Pennsylvania. After leaving that institution he engaged in teaching for four years in the public schools and was then chosen principal of the Northwestern Normal School of Pennsylvania, in which capacity he served for a year and a half. When the war broke out he put aside all personal considerations, for his patriotic spirit was aroused by the attempt of the south to overthrow the Union. He therefore enlisted as a private in McLain's Erie regiment on the 16th of April, 1861, and served for three months. On the expiration of that period he returned home and again entered his country's service in September, 1861, at which time he was assigned to Company D, of the Eighty-third Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers and was chosen captain, serving in that capacity until 1863, when on the 8th of July he was promoted to the rank of colonel, and subsequently brevet brigadier general for gallant and meritorious services. He participated in many battles and skirmishes, among which were he important engagements at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gain's Mills, Malvern Hill, Fair Oaks, Mine Run, Gettysburg, Rappahannock Station, where he commanded the corps skirmishers, and the Wilderness. He was in every battle in which his regiment was engaged except at Second Bull Run and Fredericksburg. Colonel Woodward was wounded through the left arm at the battle of Malvern Hill and at the battle of the Wilderness he lost his right leg, sustaining injuries which necessitated its amputation above the knee. He was never captured and on many an occasion his own personal valor inspired his men, his bravery proving an important factor in winning the day. His was a noble record of which he has every reason to be proud.
When the war was over Colonel Woodward returned home to his young wife, whom he married in the interim between his first and second enlistments. It was on the 9th of September, 1861, that Miss Marietta Himrod of Waterford, Pennsylvania, became his wife. She is a daughter of David and Abigail Himrod. Their marriage has been blessed with three children: Anna, who is at home: Kate, the wife of G. F. Clark, now of Pewaukee, Wisconsin; and Alice, the wife of J. S. McDonald, jr., who resides in Chicago. Mrs. Woodward died April 11, 1887, and is buried in Neosho Falls cemetery.
Colonel Woodward has ever been prominent in public affairs. Immediately after his return from the war in 1865 he became a recognized leader in political circles in Pennsylvania and served in the house of representatives through the session of 1865-6. In the latter year he was re-elected for a second term and did much towards shaping the legislature of his state in the epoch which followed the Civil war. In April, 1868, he arrived in Kansas and Woodson county gained thereby a valued citizen. He purchased a farm and continued its cultivation until 1871, when he removed
to Neosho Falls and embarked in the hardware business, continuing in that enterprise for twelve years. He has been very successful in his business transactions and today owns five hundred acres of valuable land in Woodson county, all improved and bringing to him a handsome income. He had not been long in Kansas when his ability for leadership gained him prominence in the republican ranks of this state, and in 1888, he was elected to the senate where he served for four years, representing Woodson and Allen counties. He has ever been a stalwart republican and his services in office have won for him the highest commendation and have demonstrated beyond doubt his fidelity to the best interests of his constituents.
Mr. Woodward holds membership in the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Neosho Falls lodge, and also in the G. A. R. He has a very pleasant home presided over by Miss Anna Woodward and celebrated for its gracious hospitality which is enjoyed by a very extensive circle of friends. The colonel's career illustrates the possibilities that are open in this country to earnest and persevering young men who have the courage of their convictions and are determined to be the architects of their own fortunes. When judged by what he has accomplished, his right to a first place among the representative citizens of Neosho Falls cannot be questioned. He has ever been true and loyal to principle and in the legislative halls of two states, as well as upon the battle fields of the south, he has manifested his love for the old flag and the cause which it represents.
1st century BC (?) after an original dating from the late 5th century BC
Rome
Pentelic marble
H. 121 cm
W. 94 cm
Former Borghese collection, purchased in 1807
Known to us as early as the 16th century from a drawing by Pierre Jacques, this relief adorned the main facade of the Roman villa of Scipione Borghese (1587 - 1633), nephew of Pope Paul VI (1605 - 1621). The Latin inscription, almost certainly not original but nonetheless engraved before the 16th century, falsely identifies the figures as Zethus, Antiope and Amphion from a well-known passage in Ovid's Metamorphoses which was particularly in fashion after the discovery of the statue of the Farnese Bull in 1545. Antiope, lover of Zeus, had two sons by him, Zethus and Amphion, whom she only re-encountered as adults.
However, this scene is quite another; that of Orpheus and Eurydice bidding each other farewell in the presence of Hermes the psychopomp, conductor of souls to the other world. On the right, Orpheus, the Thracian shepherd who invented music, holds in his left hand the lyre with which he charmed animals and the gods of the underworld. In the middle, Eurydice, his wife, wears a peplos (garment fastened at the shoulders) and she has just unveiled her face, as is proper for a wife. Hermes, the god-messenger, wears a petasos (broad-rimmed hat worn by travellers) hanging down at the back of his neck, a chitoniskos (a short tunic) and a chlamys (short woollen cloak).
The scene is one of great emotional restraint – the subtlety of the entwined hands speaks of immense suffering – and represents the moment when, after a short while of being reunited, Orpheus is about to lose his beloved wife again for having looked back at her despite being forbidden to do so.
This relief is one of a series of four, frequently copied in Antiquity, similar in theme, always with three figures, and size. Other copies of the Louvre scene are known in Naples and Berlin, as well as reliefs of a similar size depicting Hercules and Pirithous (Louvre, Villa Torlonia), Medea and the Peleiades (Berlin) or Hercules and the Hesperides (Villa Albani). The style of these lost originals is similar to that seen in the Parthenon, which suggests a date of between 430 and 420 BC. It was thought that they might have belonged to the Altar of the Twelve Gods in the Athens Agora although no construction was known to have taken place there at that time. They might also be part of a sepulchral monument erected during the Peloponnese war (perhaps a group tomb) or a choregic monument in honour of a victorious choregei from the theatrical contests, where plays would almost certainly have had mythological themes. The hypothesis of a sepulchral monument is the more probable, not least because the Myrrhine lekythos (funerary vase) in the National Museum in Athens, dated circa 420 - 410 BC (inv. 4485), shows Hermes the psychopomp leading away the dead Eurydice with the same hand gesture. Indeed, it is perfectly possible that they were made in the same workshop). Whatever the case, Western art has rarely matched such sensitivity in expressing the pain of separation, which no doubt explains the number of copies that have been made of it. (J.L.M.)
Farewell to Orpheus
1988
Frederic Littman
South Park Blocks at Portland State University.
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According to the Oregon Encylopedia:
Frederic Littman (1907-1979) may have single-handedly revived the fine art of sculpture in Oregon. During the thirty years before his arrival in Portland in 1941, few active sculptors were working in the state. Through four decades of extensive public and private art commissions, teaching activities, and exhibitions, Littman left a towering artistic legacy to Oregon.
Born in Hungary in 1907, Littman lived with relatives after the death of his father in World War I. At age seventeen, while living with an uncle who was an art collector, he was inspired by illustrations he saw in his uncle’s art magazines. He acquired plasticene and began sculpting female nudes; he displayed his work in his home. A family friend saw them and encouraged Littman to enroll in the National School of Fine Arts in Budapest, where he studied for a year.
In 1925, Littman moved to Paris to study at the Académie Julian. The move was primarily motivated by his love of French art, but also by the anti-Semitic sentiment he encountered in Budapest.
In 1926, Littman was accepted at the prestigious École Nationale des Beaux-Arts and exhibited at the Salon d’Automne. He entered the Académie Ranson in 1931 and became a student assistant to Charles Malfray. At about the same time that he achieved full professorship in 1934, Littman received criticisms from Aristide Maillol, an indication that his work had earned the respect of highly esteemed artists.
In 1940, like many Jewish artists, writers, and intellectuals, Littman fled the growing holocaust in Europe with his new wife, sculptor Marianne Gold, whom he had met at the Académie Ranson. Soon after arriving in New York, he had an exhibit at the Lilienfeld Gallery and accepted an artist-in-residence position at Antioch College.
In 1941, Littman moved to Portland, where he was artist-in-residence at Reed College, a position he would hold until 1945. The following year, he became an instructor of sculpture at the Museum Art School, where he taught until 1960. He had the first of three one-person exhibitions at the Portland Art Museum in 1945.
It was during the late 1940s to the early 1950s that he began to consult with architects on major commissions. He was a pioneer in this type of collaboration and won a citation for that work from the Oregon chapter of the American Institute of Architects. He also completed two commissions from Pietro Belluschi, including the doors for Zion Lutheran Church in Portland. In 1960, he was named associate professor of art at Portland State University (PSU). He attained full professorship in 1966 and retired from PSU in 1973.
Littman’s work can be described as romantic, impressionistic, and figuratively based. Later in his career, he experimented with more reductive and abstracted forms, though he rarely executed nonobjective works. While he was greatly influenced by Maillol, his work owes more to Rodin, Maillol’s teacher. Littman's preferred subject matter throughout his career was the female nude, though he used no models and chose to work from memory.
Perhaps even more enduring than his many works of art is his profound influence on subsequent generations of sculptors in Oregon. Littman's students included James Lee Hansen, Manuel Izquierdo, Charles Kelly, Lee Kelly, and Donald Wilson. His works can be seen in Portland at Temple Beth Israel, Council Crest Park, and the Portland Art Museum and at the Marion County Courthouse in Salem.
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Bronze sculpture (1936) by Carl Milles (1875-1955)
In the background are Man praying and The sisters.
Millesgården, Lidingö, Sweden
Re-edited in August 2019
Marble table-support, with Orpheus playing the lyre, surrounded by real and mythical creatures
From Aegina
4th c. CE
Perhaps the product of an Asia Minor workshop
Byzantine & Christian Museum, Athens, Greece
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The Oberon class submarine Orpheus (S11) alongside at HMS Dolphin, Portsmouth on the 15 May 1986. She was moored in front of her sister Oberon
Auguste Rodin, 1840–1917
Modeled probably before 1887, carved 1893.
This motif of the very smooth figures emerging from the rough hewn stone is often repeated by the artist.
Originally modeled for The Gates of Hell, where it was apparently intended to illustrate a poem from Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal, this group was abandoned by Rodin in the final version of The Gates but given a second existence under the present title.
Taken during the annual closing party of the Belastingdienst B/CIE business unit at Theater & Congres Orpheus in Apeldoorn.
The event comprised of interviews with the CEO (Directeur-Generaal) Peter Veld, CIO Willy Rovers and our B/CIE managing director Henk Hendriks.
Afterwards was an interview with the B/CIE Management Team; Henk Hendriks, Alberta Schuurs-Jensema, Ellen Mulder, Lineke van Dieperbeek-Peters, Otte Jaarsma, Aad Uitenbroek and Fred Bosman.
This was followed by the keynote talk of René Boender.
The entire event was hosted by Pernille la Lau and supported by the "CIE Band" musical ensemble.
The event was closed with drinks and snacks and we collected our Christmas gift on the way out.
HMS ORPHEUS was one of the repeat M-class destroyers part of the 3rd order (ordered late 1914) and was built to the Admiralty design.
Twenty repeat 'M' class were ordered in September 1914, 16 of them to the Admiralty standard design but without the cruising turbines (to accelerate delivery - except in Fairfield, Swan Hunter and Fairfield boats). Another improvement was to put No 2 102mm gun on a 'bandstand' as in the 'L' class. The doubling on the stempiece fitted as an emergency measure to the early 'M' class was now made standard to facilitate ramming of U-boats, but in the form of a single casting. The Yarrow 'specials' were similar to the Miranda but were 0.3m longer on the waterline and had raked stems and sloping sterns. The only other variants built thereafter were Thornycroft 'specials', which resembled the Admiralty boats but had flat-sided funnels and higher freeboard. In the later Admiralty-designed boats the stem was raked and the bows were given more flare to improve seakeeping. Machinery was non-standard, with geared-turbines in a few, triple screws in most, and twin screws in some. In July 1916 the Admiralty restored order to a chaotic situation by ordering that all 3-shaft destroyers building were to be listed as Admiralty 'M' class and future 2-shaft boats would be Admiralty 'R's; as a result Redmill and Redwing became Medina and Medora (renamed Medway two weeks later). Although there were some complaints about poor finish they proved sturdy craft and gave good value in four hard years of war. Because of hard driving and particularly because their hulls had not been galvanized they were worn out by 1919 and very few survived the wholesale scrapings in 1921. In all 90 were built, 79 Admiralty boats, and 11 'specials'.
HMS ORPHEUS
Builder…………………………Doxford, Pallion
Launched……………………..17 June 1916
Completed……………………September 1916
Fate………………………………November 1921 Sold for breaking up
Displacement normal…..1025 tons
No of shafts………………….3
Machinery…………………….3 x Parsons or Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers
Speed(max)………………….34 knots
Armament
•3 -single mounts 102mm (4 inch) /40 QF Mk IV,
•1 – twin mount 40mm/39 2pdr QF Mk II
•2 x double 533mm Torpedo tubes
Pennant Numbers Carried
G43……………..September 1915 – 1917
F17………………January 1917 – January 1918
F35………………January 1918 – April 19
H28……………...April 1918 - October 1919
GA9………………October 1919 - ???
Boughton House, near Geddington, Northamptonshire
HHA
The Duke commissioned Kim Wilkie to design a striking new landform, Orpheus. It is named after the famed musician of Greek mythology who, when his wife Eurydice died, went down into the underworld to try and reclaim her. His music was so beautiful that Hades relented and allowed Eurydice to return to the world of the living.
Orpheus takes the form of an inverted pyramid, sunk into the earth and open to the elements. It is at once a negative space and a sculptural form. Its serene lines seem to invite you to descend into its depths and enjoy the tranquillity.
Boughton House, Northamptonshire, is a country house about 3 miles north-east of Kettering near Geddington. Part of an estate of 11,000 acres, it is one of the seats of the Duke of Buccleuch and famed for its beauty, its collections, and the fact it has survived virtually unchanged since the 17th century. While possessing a medieval core, its exterior evokes an opulent French chateau, causing it to be called 'The English Versailles'.
In keeping with the French style of its exterior, Boughton House is set amidst a highly impressive formal, yet arcadian garden of strict geometry, designed on the golden ratio. Vast swathes of turf, planes of reflecting water, strong lines of trees and linear earth forms create an intellectually meditative landscape indicative of the Age of Enlightenment and the idea that a garden could be a journey of the mind, yet acknowledge the natural world. The 2nd Duke, who had been nicknamed John The Planter, swept away the previous ornamental parterres, multiplied the avenues of elms and planes, and developed the role of water which structures the garden. Later, the landscaper of the garden at Stowe, Charles Bridgeman, who was under his employ, is believed to have created the sculptural earth forms.
Restoration of the garden was begun by the 9th Duke, and has continued under the 10th Duke. It included returning the River Ise to its eighteenth-century width, which required two miles of green oak boarding, fixed by coach bolts. In 2009 landscape designer Kim Wilkie was commissioned to create a new work to complement an existing pyramidal grassed mount. The result, called Orpheus, is named after the famed musician of Greek mythology who, when his wife Eurydice died, went down into the underworld to try to reclaim her. His music was so beautiful that Hades relented and allowed Eurydice to return to the world of the living. This striking landform seamlessly continues the garden's intellectual dialogue via an immense inverted pyramid and spiral rill, both set within a golden ratio. In 2015 The Grand Etang, or ‘large lake’ in French, a long-vanished lake of almost one-acre with a 75 ft tall water jet was recreated, to once again reflect the main frontage of Boughton. Located immediately to the north-west of the House, it is one of the earliest surviving features from the original gardens and designed landscape. It was created in the early 18th century as a reflecting pool for the house and was also used for ice-skating in the winter.