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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth (1888-1965), Politician

Sitter associated with 95 portraits
Morrison was elected to a succession of influential positions in local government, starting with Mayor of Hackney in 1920, and membership of the London County Council in 1922. He entered parliament during the first Labour government of 1924 as MP for South Hackney. Minister of Transport in Ramsay Macdonald's 1929 government; member of Churchill's War Cabinet (1942-5); as Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security (1940-5) created the National Fire Service; Foreign Secretary (1951) under Clement Attlee. He retired in 1959 and accepted a life peerage. Entering the House of Lords as Baron Morrison of Lambeth, he fought to stop the abolition of the London County Council, dying in 1969.

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x25659

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Elliott & Fry
half-plate negative, June 1948
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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Elliott & Fry
half-plate negative, June 1948
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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Elliott & Fry
half-plate negative, June 1948
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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Elliott & Fry
half-plate negative, June 1948
NPG x82224

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Elliott & Fry
half-plate negative, June 1948
NPG x82225

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Elliott & Fry
half-plate negative, June 1948
NPG x82226

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Elliott & Fry
half-plate negative, June 1948
NPG x82227

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth; Arthur Winant

by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1950s
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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Howard Coster
print, 1953
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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Walter Bird
bromide print, 1961
NPG x186733

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Keystone Press Agency Ltd
vintage print, 17 October 1962
NPG x137361

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Possibly Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Henryk Gotlib
pencil, circa 1939-1945
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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Henryk Gotlib
pencil, circa 1939-1945
NPG D13616

Category
Politics, Government and Diplomacy
Groups
Statesmen
Place
London