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Philip James Stanhope, Baron Weardale

(1847-1923), Politician; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery

Sitter in 13 portraits
Weardale was a Liberal MP. He was the youngest son of Philip Stanhope, first chairman of the National Portrait Gallery Trustees, and started his career in the Navy. He was elected MP for Wednesbury in 1886, later for Burnley (1893) and Harborough (1904). He opposed war including the Boer War. He was president of Save the Children and became a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. In 1912 he became joint president of the National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage and in 1914 was attacked with a whip by a suffragette in Euston Station. He married Countess Alexandra Tolstoy.

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Philip James Stanhope, Baron Weardale, by Sir Henry Maximilian ('Max') Beerbohm - NPG 7051

Philip James Stanhope, Baron Weardale

by Sir Henry Maximilian ('Max') Beerbohm
watercolour, published 1907
NPG 7051

'Russian Statesmen at the Houses of Parliament', by Nicholas Alexeievitch Homiakoff, for  Benjamin Stone - NPG x135579

'Russian Statesmen at the Houses of Parliament'

by Nicholas Alexeievitch Homiakoff, for Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 22 June 1909
NPG x135579

Philip James Stanhope, Baron Weardale, by Walter Stoneman, for  James Russell & Sons - NPG Ax39171

Philip James Stanhope, Baron Weardale

by Walter Stoneman, for James Russell & Sons
bromide print, circa 1916
NPG Ax39171

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