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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

(1888-1965), Politician; Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister

Sitter associated with 97 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
10 x 8 inch film negative, 1936
NPG x93745

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Howard Coster
10 x 8 inch film negative, 1936
NPG x93746

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Bassano Ltd
half-plate film negative, 28 November 1940
NPG x19476

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Walter Stoneman
negative, August 1941
NPG x163003

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Walter Stoneman
negative, August 1941
NPG x163004

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Walter Stoneman
negative, August 1941
NPG x163005

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Walter Stoneman
negative, August 1941
NPG x163006

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, August 1941
NPG x186732

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 6 February 1942
NPG x178249

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 6 February 1942
NPG x178250

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 6 February 1942
NPG x178251

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x25639

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x25641

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x25642

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x25643

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x25645

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x25646

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x25647

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x25649

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x25651

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x25652

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x25653

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x25655

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x25656

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x25658

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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
NPG x82221

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Elliott & Fry
half-plate negative, June 1948
NPG x82222

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Elliott & Fry
half-plate negative, June 1948
NPG x82223

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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

by Walter Bird
bromide print, 14 July 1961
NPG x186733

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