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She studied dance, teacher training, art and design at Dartington Hall in Devon from 1931 until 1933, and on leaving Dartington helped her father with furnishing and interior decoration at the Savoy Hotel until 1939. Her brother's death in 1932, in a car accident in Switzerland when he was 21, meant that she inherited her father's business interests on his death in 1948, including the Savoy Hotel Group and the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company Company. She was awarded a DBE in the Birthday Honours List of June 1975 for her services to the D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust that she formed in 1972 to endow funds for arts, medical welfare and the environment.\n\nThe photographer Houston Rogers (1902-1970) was one of London's leading theatre photographers from the 1930s until his death in 1970. By the end  of the 1930s he had covered many important West  End productions including John Gielgud's Queen's Theatre seasons in 1937 and 1938. Despite losing a large proportion of his early photos during the Second World War, Rogers resumed his business after the war, photographed most of the West End non-Tennent  productions, and was almost the sole photographer of both ballet and opera at the Royal Opera House in the 1950 and 1960s.","physicalDescription":"Head and shoulders photographic portrait of Dame Bridget D'Oyly Carte, face-on, wearing a pendant bird brooch, set with pearls.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Rogers, Houston","id":"A1838"},"association":{"text":"photographer","id":"x43821"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"photographic paper","id":"AAT14190"}],"techniques":[{"text":"photography","id":"AAT54225"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Photograph","categories":[{"text":"Photographs","id":"THES48910"},{"text":"Portraits","id":"THES48906"},{"text":"Entertainment & Leisure","id":"THES48959"},{"text":"Musical Theatre","id":"THES278879"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"T&P","id":"THES48602"},"images":["2021NB4425"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"003","id":"THES356684"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"photographs","id":"AAT46300"}],[{"text":"portraits","id":"AAT15637"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":"Probably photographed in London where Rogers mainly worked and she lived in a suite at the Savoy Hotel"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca.1950","earliest":"1945-01-01","latest":"1954-12-31"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by Peter Parker","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"15.1","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"10.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Inscribed in biro verso: 'Parker/ 13 Broxbourne Avenue/ Orpington","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"This photograph was inherited by Peter Parker, who bequeathed it to the museum, from his father Stanley Parker who was employed by the Savoy Hotel as a junior clerk in May 1909, straight from school. From that job, on the death of Helen D'Oyly Carte in 1913, Stanley Parker was appointed by Rupert D'Oyly Carte to understudy Mr George A Richardson who managed the  theatre from November 1911 to February 1915.\r\n\r\nIn 1913 Stanley Parker became Rupert and (later) Bridget D'Oyly Carte's private secretary, and secretary of the Savoy Theatre Ltd., and the Opera Company. 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