National Photographic Record 1917-58
| National Photographic Record (NPR): List of subjects commissioned - 1917-1958 | 1917| 1918| 1919| 1920| 1921| 1922| 1923| 1924| 1925| 1926| 1927| 1928| 1929| 1930| 1931| 1932| 1933| 1934| 1935| 1936| 1937| 1938| 1939| 1940| 1941| 1942| 1943| 1944| 1945| 1946| 1947| 1948| 1949| 1950| 1951| 1952| 1953| 1954| 1955| 1956| 1957| 1958| 1959| 1960| 1961| 1962| 1963| 1964| 1965| 1966| 1967| 1968| 1969| 1970 |
| 1917 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Bernard Bosanquet (1848-1923), Philosopher William Hugh Clifford, 10th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (1858-1943), Radiologist and scientist Sir Frederick William Keeble (1870-1952), Botanist William Halse Rivers Rivers (1864-1922), Anthropologist Sir Herbert William Wilberforce (1866-1952), Brigadier-General |
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| Return to top | 1918 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Sir Israel Gollancz (1863-1930), Scholar and man of letters Louis Napoleon George Filon (1875-1937), Mathematician Archibald Williamson, 1st Baron Forres (1860-1931), Liberal Politician Edward Stuart Talbot (1844-1934), Bishop of Winchester Herbert Hall Turner (1861-1930), Astronomer |
| Return to top | 1919 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: William Carmichael McIntosh (1838-1931), Zoologist Sir Gilbert Parker, Bt (1862-1932), Novelist and Politician Sir Charles Algernon Parsons (1854-1931), Engineer and Scientist Sir Horace George Montagu Rumbold, 9th Bt (1869-1941), Diplomatist Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes (1877-1954), Chief of Air Staff and Governor of Bombay |
| Return to top | 1920 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin (1867-1947), Prime Minister Anthony Ashley Bevan (1859-1933), Orientalist and Biblical scholar Sir William Boyd Dawkins (1837-1929), Geologist, palaeontologist and antiquary Martin Bladen Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke (1860-1930), Cricketer Sir Lawrence Weaver (1876-1930), Architectural critic |
| Return to top | 1921 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Sir Charles Stewart Addis (1861-1945), Director of the Bank of England Sir Leonard Bairstoe (1880-1963), Professor of Aviation King George VI (1895-1952) George Edward (G.E.), Moore (1873-1958), Philosopher Margaret Wintringham (1879-1955), Politician and Justice of the Peace |
| Return to top | 1922 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: J.M.Barrie (1860-1937), Writer, author of Peter Pan Sir Maurice Hill (1862-1934), Judge Harold Henry Joachim (1868-1938), Philosopher Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie (1847-1935), Composer James Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937), Prime Minister |
| Return to top | 1923 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Percy Stafford Allen (1869-1933), President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford University Frederick Leverton Harris (1864-1926), Politician and art collector Sir John Linton Myres (1869-1954), Archaeologist and historian Sir Edward John Russell (1872-1965), Agriculturalist Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners (1883-1950), Musician, artist and writer |
| Return to top | 1924 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: John Robert Clynes (1869-1949), Labour Leader Sir George Frampton (1860-1928), Sculptor Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), Writer and Poet Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944), Architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (1880-1960), Architect |
| Return to top | 1925 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Katherine Marjory Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl (1874-1960), Public Servant James Buchanan, 1st Baron Woolavington (1849-1935), Philanthropist Stewart Ranken Douglas (1871-1936), Bacteriologist Sir Arthur Eddington (1882-1944), Astronomer Sir Herbert Hughes-Stanton (1870-1937), Artist |
| Return to top | 1926 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Henry Balfour (1863-1939), Anthropologist Sir Charles Galton Darwin (1887-1962), Scientist John Francis Charles, Count de Salis (1864-1939), Diplomat Edward Cecil Guiness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (1847-1927), Philanthropist Arthur Herbert Tennyson Somers Cocks, 6th Baron Somers (1887-1944), Red Cross Commissioner |
| Return to top | 1927 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857-1941), Founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides Hugh Fortescue, 4th Earl Fortescue (1854-1932), Sportsman and Politician Sir Herbert Jackson (1863-1936), Chemist William Hulme Lever, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme (1888-1949), Governor of Lever Brothers and Unilever Ltd 6th Earl of Harewood (1882-1947), Connoisseur Sir Richard Olaf Winstedt (1878-1966), Malayan civil servant and Malay scholar |
| Return to top | 1928 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Sir Robert Hugh Hanley Baird (1855-1934), Newspaper proprietor Sir William Robert Robertson, 1st Bt (1860-1933), Field Marshal Sir Hugh Dudley Richards Watson (1872-1954), Admiral Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (1857-1952), Colonel and Politician |
| Return to top | 1929 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Sir (Christopher Joseph), Quintin Brand (1893-1968), Air Vice-Marshal Sir Selwyn MacGregor Grier (1878-1946), Colonial secretary, Trinidad Albert Victor Alexander, Earl Alexander of Hillsborough (1885-1965), Politician Sir Francis Edward Younghusband (1863-1942), Soldier, explorer and mystic |
| Return to top | 1930 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Clement Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee (1883-1967), Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett (1870-1947), Canadian prime minister Maharaja of Bikaner (1880-1943), Statesman and general Margaret Grace Bondfield (1873-1953), Politician and first woman cabinet minister Clarence Napier Bruce, 3rd Baron Aberdare (1885-1957), Athlete George Herbert Hyde Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon (1877-1955), Chairman of BBC |
| Return to top | 1931 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Samuel Alexander (1859-1938), Philosopher Gilbert Heathcote Willoughby, 2nd Earl of Ancaster (1867-1951), Lord Great Chamberlain 1937-50 Sir Sayaji Rao III, Maharaja of Baroda (1863-1939), Indian Ruler Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890-1962), Mathematical statistician and geneticist Edward Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet (1879-1960), Journalist and politician Lewis Fry Richardson (1881-1953), Physicist, meteorologist and mathematician Sir Alexander Walker (1869-1950), Whisky distiller |
| Return to top | 1932 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Mabel Frances Elizabeth, Countess of Airlie (1866-1956), Wife of David Ogilvy, 8th Earl of Airlie Norman Hepburn Baynes (1877-1961), Historian Sir (Charles), Hubert Bond (1870-1945), Psychiatrist and administrator Sir Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, 1st Bt (1893-1980) Edward Charles Titchmarsh (1899-1963), Mathematician |
| Return to top | 1933 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Sir Robert Henry Clive (1877-1948) Sir Kinahan Cornwallis (1883-1959), Administrator and diplomatist William Henry Grenfell, Baron Desborough (1855-1945), Athlete, sportsman and public servant Sir (William), Graham Greene (1857-1950), Civil servant John Jestin Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin (1893-1957), Politician Walter William Ouless (1848-1933), Artist Horace Cowley Wyndham (1873-1970), Author |
| Return to top | 1934 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Sir Lancelot Graham (1880-1958) Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), writer and poet Sir Harry Charles Luke (1884-1969), Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for West Pacific William Lygon, 8th Earl Beauchamp (1903-1979), Justice of the Peace 1st Viscount Nuffield (1877-1963), Industrialist and philanthropist John Reith, 1st Baron Reith (1889-1971), Administrator; first Director General of the BBC Richard Henry Tawney (1880-1962), Economist Sir Hubert Winthrop Young (1885-1950), Soldier and administrator |
| Return to top | 1935 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Sir Thomas Best (1870-1941), Colonial administrator Sir Frank Noyce (1878-1948), Indian Civil Service Sir Harry Peat (1878-1959), Chartered accountant Arthur Frederick Richards, 1st Baron Milverton (1885-1978), Colonial Governor H G Wells (1866-1946), Writer Sir Mark Young (1886-1974), Colonial administrator and Governor of Hong Kong |
| Return to top | 1936 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram (1858-1946), Bishop of London Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page (1880-1961), Prime Minister of Australia Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), Poet and prose writer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), Composer |
| Return to top | 1937 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: (Arthur), Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940), Prime Minister; son of Joseph Chamberlain John Alfred Spender (1862-1942), Journalist and author Sir Robert Tasker (1868-1959), Major; Politician |
| Return to top | 1938 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Bernard Ashmole (1894-1988), Archaeologist and art historian Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin (1867-1947), Prime Minister and Statesman Sir Arthur Eddington (1882-1944), Astronomer Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900-1974), Son of George V Cosmo Gordon Lang, Baron Lang of Lambeth (1864-1945), Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Return to top | 1939 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Thomas William Allen (1862-1950), Fellow of the British Academy Sir Charles Frederick Arden-Close (1865-1952), Geographer Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887-1976), Field Marshal John Hay Beith (1876-1952), Writer, playwright and soldier Walter de la Mare (1873-1956), Poet and writer Henry Woodd Nevinson (1856-1941), Journalist and war correspondent |
| Return to top | 1940 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Ernest Bevin (1881-1951), Trade Unionist Sir Walter Galpin Alcock (1861-1947), Organist and composer Clement Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee (1883-1967), Prime Minister Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey (1908-1983), Physicist Sir Henry Joseph Wood (1869-1944), Conductor |
| Return to top | 1941 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Sir John Greer Dill (1881-1944), Field Marshal Edward William Macleay Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham (1879-1955), Colonial administrator, politician and editor of the 'National Review' Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk (1908-1975), Earl Marshal Sir Noel Frank Laurence (d.1970), Admiral Sir David John Montagu Douglas Scott (1887-1986), Diplomat |
| Return to top | 1942 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Sir Percy Alden (1865-1944), Politician Herbert Vere Evatt (1894-1965), Australian judge and statesman Sir Edmund Hakewill-Smith (1896-1986), Major General Louis Mountbatten, Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979), Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Bernard Hughes Rawlings (1889-1962), Admiral |
| Return to top | 1943 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Richard Gavin Gardiner Casey, Baron Casey (1890-1976), Australian politician, diplomat and imperial proconsul Sir Ross Cairns McCay (1895-1969), Lieutenant General Lord Robert John Rayleigh, 4th Baron Rayleigh (1875-1947), Experimental physicist Stella Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading (1894-1971), Chairman and founder of Women's Royal Voluntary Service Oliver Frederick George Stanley (1896-1950), Politician |
| Return to top | 1944 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Sir Adolphe Abrahams (1883-1967), Physician Sir Ernest Barker (1874-1960), Professor of Political Science at Cambridge William Ewart Gye (1884-1952), Doctor and Director of Imperial Cancer Research Fund Sir Arthur Nevil Rucker (1895-1991), Public servant Sir Alfred Eckhard Zimmern (1897-1957), Scholar and authority on inéernational institutions |
| Return to top | 1945 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Alexander Craig Aitken (1895-1967), Professor of Mathematics Mervyn George Haigh (1887-1962), Bishop of Coventry and of Winchester Sir Geoffrey Layton (1884-1964), Admiral John Edward Talbot Younger (1888-1974), Major-General Francis de Zulueta (1878-1958), Academic lawyer |
| Return to top | 1946 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Sir Charles Frederick Goodeve (1904-1980), Industrial scientist Norman Craven Brook, Baron Normanbrook (1902-1967), Civil Servant Sir Edward Wilfrid Harry Travis (1888-1956), Naval officer, Head of GCHQ Sir Thomas Hope Troubridge (1895-1949), Vice-Admiral William Munro Yool (1894-1978), Air Vice-Marshal |
| Return to top | 1947 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Sir Cyril Burt (1883-1971), Psychologist Sir Charles Alfred Howard (1878-1958), Brigadier Sir Philip Euen Mitchell (1890-1964), Colonial administrator Sir Philip Neame (1888-1978), Lieutenant General Sir Robert Arthur Young (1871-1959), Physician |
| Return to top | 1948 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Sir James Drummond Anderson (1886-1968), Indian civil servant T.S.Eliot (1888-1965), Poet Sir Claude Francis Liardet (1881-1966), Major General Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan (1873-1952), Senior legal adviser Harold Edward Wynn (1889-1956), Bishop of Ely |
| Return to top | 1949 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Sir Bronson James Albery (1881-1971), Theatre Director Sir Henry Clay (1883-1954), Economist Leslie Hore-Belisha, Baron Hore-Belisha (1893-1957), Politician Sir (George), Laurence Watkinson (1896-1974), Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Fuel and Power, London Electricity Consultative Council, London Electricity Board Frank Yates (1902-1994), Scientist |
| Return to top | 1950 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (1897-1977), Prime Minister Sir (John), Ninian Comper (1864-1960), Church architect Sir John Masterman (1891-1977), Academic and intelligence officer Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier (1907-1989), Actor, producer and director Gordon Drummond Young (1896-1964), Major General |
| Return to top | 1951 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Sir Colin Anderson (1904-1980), Museum trustee Sir Gerald Reid Barry (1898-1968), Journalist and administrator Ernest Albert Whitfield, 1st Baron Kenswood (1887-1963), Professional violinist and economist Sir Frank Godbould Lee (1903-1971), Civil servant and Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge John Richard Lowndes French, 2nd Earl of Ypres (1881-1958), Soldier |
| Return to top | 1952 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Leoplold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery (1873-1955), Secretary of State for India Sir Arthur Bliss (1891-1975), Composer Sir Rhoderick Robert McGrigor (1893-1959), Admiral Edward Felix Norton (1884-1954), Lieutenant General Sir Richard Ernest Yeabsley (1898-1983), Accountant |
| Return to top | 1953 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Sir Henry Hallett Dale (1875-1968), Physiologist and pharmacologist Sir Wilfrid Gordon Lindsell (1884-1973), Lieutenant general Sir Henry Ruthven Moore (1886-1978), Admiral Carl Frederick Abel Pantin (1899-1967), Professor of Zoology Sir Richard Vynne Southwell (1888-1970), Professor of Engineering Science |
| Return to top | 1954 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Sir George Vance Allen (1894-1970), Bacteriologist Sir Kenneth Ralph Barnes (1878-1957), Dramatist Sir Frank Aubrey Newsam (1893-1964), Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Home Office Sir George William Rendel (1889-1979), Diplomat William John Yendell (1903-1988), Rear Admiral |
| Return to top | 1955 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Walter Samuel Beddall (1894-1973), Major General Sir Martin Eric Dunbar-Nasmith (d.1965), Admiral Clive Staples ('C.S.'), Lewis (1898-1963), Author Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer (1898-1979), Field Marshal and Trustee of National Portrait Gallery Sir Henry Colville Barclay Wemyss (1891-1959), General |
| Return to top | 1956 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Sir Roy George Douglas Allen (1906-1983), Professor of Statistics Sir John Reginald Hornby Nott-Bower (1892-1972), Commissioner of Metropolitan Police Colin Henderson Roberts (1909-1990), Publisher and Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press; Classicist Sir George Peregrine Young, 5th Bt (1908-1960), Minister at the British Embassy, Paris Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman (1904-1993), Zoologist, scientific adviser and public servant |
| Return to top | 1957 approximately 200 sitters photographed by Walter Stoneman, including: Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997), Philosopher and political theorist George Alexander Bond (1901-1987), Major General Edward Charles Gurney, Viscount Boyle of Handsworth (1923-1981), Politician Sir (D'Arcy), Patrick Reilly (b.1909), Chairman of Banque Nationale de Paris Ltd and ambassador Dame Myra Hess (1890-1965), Pianist |
| Return to top | 1958 approximately 200 photographed by Walter Stoneman and Walter Bird, including: Sir Maurice (Edward), Adams (1901-1982), Civil engineer in Chief of the Admiralty Robert Alexander Allan, Baron Allan of Kilmahew (1914-1979), Politician and shipowner Douglas Bluett (1897-1981), Major General Charles Ralph Boxer (b.1904), Professor of Portuguese Sir Eric Grant Yarrow (1884-1962), Chairman of Yarrow & Co Ltd |
