especially English painting. Both had portraits made by John Singer Sargent. She posed for hers in 1904 at their villa, the Palazzo Giustinian, in Venice. Vincent was Chairman of the royal commission on National Museums and Galleries, which published its report in 1928. The bulk of their art collection was sold at auction in 1929. Two works once in their collection are in the National Gallery, three at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and others at the (Mellon) Yale Center for British Art and other museums. The collection included 17th century Ottoman textiles. D'Abernon died of hypostatic pneumonia and Parkinson's disease at Hove in November 1941. He had no children and the viscountcy and barony created for him therefore became extinct. There were no remaining heirs to the 1620 baronetcy and that too became extinct on his death. Honours D'Abernon was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in 1887, promoted to Knight Grand Cross (GCMG) in 1917, and made Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) in 1926. He joined the Privy Council in 1920. D'Abernon was elevated to the peerage as Baron D'Abernon, of Esher in the county of Surrey, in 1914 and advanced to Viscount D'Abernon, of Esher and Stoke d'Abernon in the county of Surrey, in 1926. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1934. D'Abernon succeeded his elder brother Sir Frederick D'Abernon Vincent, 15th Baronet of Stoke d'Abernon as 16th Baronet in 1936. Styles and honours Edgar Vincent (1857–1887) Sir Edgar Vincent KCMG (1887–1899) Sir Edgar Vincent KCMG MP (1899–1906) Sir Edgar Vincent KCMG (1906–1914) The Right Honourable The Lord D'Abernon KCMG (1914–1917) The Right Honourable The Lord D'Abernon GCMG (1917–1920) The Right Honourable The Lord D'Abernon GCMG PC (1920–1926) The Right Honourable The Viscount D'Abernon GCMG PC (1926) The Right Honourable The Viscount D'Abernon GCB GCMG PC (1926–1934) The Right Honourable The Viscount D'Abernon GCB GCMG PC FRS (1934–1941) Works A Grammar of Modern Greek (1881) Alcohol – Its Action on the Human Organism, His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1918 An Ambassador of Peace, 3 volumes, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1929–1931 The eighteenth decisive battle of the world: Warsaw, 1920, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1931; reprinted by Hyperion Press, Westport, Conn., 1977, Notes References Paul Auchterlonie, 'A Turk of the west: Sir Edgar Vincent's career in Egypt and the Ottoman