Academics and scholars

Richard Ithamar Aaron

1901-1987
Professor of Philosophy
Sitter in 1 portrait

Edwin Abbott Abbott

1838-1926
Teacher and scholar
Sitter in 3 portraits

Nigel James Abercrombie

1908-1986
Freelance writer and Professor of French
Sitter in 1 portrait

Henry Campbell Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare

1851-1929
Academic
Sitter in 3 portraits

Neil Kensington Adam

1891-1973
Professor of chemistry
Sitter in 4 portraits

William Adam

1796-1881
Baptist minister, missionary, professor and slavery abolitionist
Sitter in 4 portraits

John ('Jack') Adams

active 17th century
Professor of celestial Sciences
Sitter in 1 portrait

Walter Frederick Adeney

1849-1920
Professor of New Testament Exegesis and Church History
Sitter in 1 portrait

Maggie Aderin-Pocock

1968-
Scientist and mechanical engineer
Sitter in 2 portraits

Stanley Davenport Adshead

1868-1946
Architect and professor of town planning
Sitter in 1 portrait

Willett Lawrence Adye

1818-1878
Landowner, biblical scholar, musicologist and writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar

1944-2022
Professor of Politics; life peer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Wilfred Eade Agar

1882-1951
Emeritus Professor of Zoology
Sitter in 1 portrait

Oliva Frances Madox Agresti (née Rossetti)

1875-1960
Scholar and writer; daughter of William Michael Rossetti
Artist of 1 portrait

James Aitchison

1899-1968
Professor of Dental Surgery
Sitter in 1 portrait

Alexander Craig Aitken

1895-1967
Professor of Mathematics
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir Robert Stevenson Aitken

1901-1997
Professor of Medicine; Vice-Chancellor of Birmingham University
Sitter in 1 portrait

Peter Alexander

died 1969
Regius Professor of English Language and Literature
Sitter in 1 portrait

(Robert) McNeill Alexander

1934-2016
Professor of Zoology, University of Leeds
Sitter in 1 portrait

Henry Alford

1810-1871
Dean of Canterbury and biblical scholar
Sitter in 6 portraits

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

1872-1953
Barrister and lecturer
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt

1836-1925
Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Carleton Kemp Allen

1887-1966
Legal scholar; author of 'Democracy and the Individual'
Sitter in 4 portraits

Sir Geoffrey Allen

1928-
Chemist and academic
Sitter in 1 portrait

George Cyril Allen

1900-1982
Economist, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy
Sitter in 8 portraits

Herbert Stanley Allen

1873-1954
Professor of Natural Philosophy
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Roy George Douglas Allen

1906-1983
Professor of Statistics
Sitter in 1 portrait

Thomas Edward Allibone

1903-2003
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Sitter in 1 portrait

Arthur John Allmand

1885-1951
Professor of Chemistry
Sitter in 3 portraits

Gerald ('Gerry') Altmann

1960-
Psychologist; expert in the psychology of language; professor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Edward William Anderson

1901-1981
Professor of Psychiatry
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir (William) Eric Anderson

1936-2020
Educator; Headmaster then Provost of Eton College; Chairman of the Heritage Lottery Fund
Sitter in 1 portrait

John George Clark Anderson

1870-1952
Camden Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford and Brasenose College Fellow
Sitter in 3 portraits

John Harold Andrew

1887-1961
Professor of Metallurgy
Sitter in 3 portraits

Thomas Annandale

1838-1907
Professor of Surgery; writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Jacobus Arminius (Jacob Hermans (Harmans))

1560-1609
Dutch Reformed theologian
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Arthur Armitage

1916-1984
Professor of Common Law, Vice-Chancellor, Victoria University of Manchester and President of Queens' College, Cambridge
Sitter in 1 portrait

Denis Midgely Arnold

1926-1986
Professor of Music, University of Oxford
Sitter in 1 portrait

Ronald Nathan Arnold

1908-1963
Engineer and Professor
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Thomas A. Arnold

1864-1930
Academic
Sitter in 2 portraits