Sir John Harold Plumb
(1911-2001), HistorianSitter in 6 portraits
Historian and National Portrait Gallery Trustee (1961-82). Born Leicestershire and educated University College, Leicester and Christ's College, Cambridge, of which he became a Fellow in 1946. He became Professor of Modern English History in the University of Cambridge (1966-1973) and Master of Christ's College (1978-82). Publications include England in the Eighteenth Century(1950) and The Birth of a Consumer Society'(1989). Regarded as an influence on generations of Cambridge historians, his manner was famously abrasive. His 'complex and contradictory nature' was fictionalised by C.P.Snow , and in novels by Angus Wilson and William Cooper.
by Bern Schwartz
dye transfer print, 9 May 1978
NPG P1236
by Bern Schwartz
dye transfer print, 9 May 1978
NPG P1237
by John Stanton Ward
pencil and watercolour, 1991
NPG 6605
by Paul Joyce
bromide print, October 1975
NPG x13449
by Paul Joyce
bromide print on card mount, October 1975
NPG x13417
by Antony Barrington Brown
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 3 May 1958
NPG x181750
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