<P> Lauder is credited with giving the then 21 - year - old portrait artist Cowan Dobson his opening into society by commissioning him, in 1915, to paint his portrait . This was considered to be so outstanding that another commission came the following year, to paint his son Captain John Lauder, and again another commission in 1921 to paint Sir Harry's wife, the latter portrait being after the style of John Singer Sargent . These three portraits remain in the family's possession . The same year, Scottish artist James McBey painted another portrait of Sir Harry, today in the Glasgow Museums . In the tradition of the famous British magazine Vanity Fair, there appeared numerous caricatures of Sir Harry Lauder . Of the more notable is one by Al Frueh (1880--1968) in 1911 and published in 1913 in the New York World magazine, another by Henry Mayo Bateman, now in London's National Gallery, and one of 1926 by Alick P.F. Ritchie, for Players Cigarettes, today in the London National Portrait Gallery (ref: NPG D2675). </P> <P> Lauder leased the Glenbranter estate in Argyll to the Forestry Commission and spent his last years at Lauder Ha (or Hall), his Strathaven home, where he died on 26 February 1950, aged 79 . His funeral was held at Cadzow church in Hamilton on 2 March . It was widely reported, notably by Pathé newsreels . One of the chief mourners was the Duke of Hamilton, a close family friend, who led the funeral procession through Hamilton, and read The Lesson . Wreaths were sent from Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and Winston Churchill . Lauder was interred in his family's plot at Bent Cemetery in Hamilton . </P> <P> Websites carry much of his material and the Harry Lauder Collection, amassed by entertainer Jimmy Logan, was bought for the nation and donated to the University of Glasgow . When the A199 Portobello bypass opened, it was named the Sir Harry Lauder Road . </P> <P> On 28 July 1987, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh hosted a luncheon at the Edinburgh City Chambers to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of Lauder receiving the Freedom of the City . On 4 August 2001 Gregory Lauder - Frost opened the Sir Harry Lauder Memorial Garden at Portobello Town Hall . Saltire / BBC 2 TV (Scotland) aired a documentary, Something About Harry, on 30 November 2005 . On 29 September 2007, Lauder - Frost rededicated the Burslem Golf Course & Club at Stoke - on - Trent, which had been formally opened exactly a century before by Harry Lauder . </P>

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