Philip James Stanhope, Baron Weardale
(1847-1923), Politician; Trustee of the National Portrait GallerySitter 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.
Philip James Stanhope, Baron Weardale
by Sir Henry Maximilian ('Max') Beerbohm
watercolour, published 1907
NPG 7051
'Visit of Members of the Russian Duma to England, 1909'
by Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 22 June 1909
NPG x135577
'Visit of Members of the Russian Duma to England, 1909'
by Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 22 June 1909
NPG x135578
'Russian Statesmen at the Houses of Parliament'
by Nicholas Alexeievitch Homiakoff, for Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 22 June 1909
NPG x135579
'Visit of Members of the Russian Duma to the Houses of Parliament'
by Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 22 June 1909
NPG x135580
'Luncheon Party to the President and Members of the Russian Duma at the House of Commons'
by Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 22 June 1909
NPG x135581
Mehmed Talat Pasha and Philip James Stanhope, Baron Weardale with two other Turkish delegates
by Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 21 July 1909
NPG x135595
by Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 21 July 1909
NPG x135607
Philip James Stanhope, Baron Weardale
by Walter Stoneman, for James Russell & Sons
bromide print, circa 1916
NPG Ax39171
Philip James Stanhope, Baron Weardale
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 28 May 1920
NPG x120630
Philip James Stanhope, Baron Weardale
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 28 May 1920
NPG x120631
Philip James Stanhope, Baron Weardale ('Men of the Day. No. 1024. "A Cynical Radical."')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 25 July 1906
NPG D45337
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