Lord David Cecil
(1902-1986), Scholar, teacher and writerSitter in 74 portraits
Scholar and biographer; A Fellow and Lecturer in Modern History at Wadham College in the 1920s, Cecil left academic life in 1930 to devote himself to writing biography and criticism. He returned and was Professor of English Literature at New College, Oxford University (1948-69); His works include a study of William Cowper, The Stricken Deer (1929), Jane Austen (1935) and two volumes on Lord Melbourne (1939, 1954).
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1939
NPG x10625
by Daniel Farson
bromide print, 1950s
NPG x22188
by Norman Parkinson
bromide print on card mount, 1950
NPG x30004
Sir Isaiah Berlin; Lord David Cecil
by Norman Parkinson
bromide print on card mount, 1950
NPG x30005
Group including Cecil Beaton, Noël Coward, Greta Garbo and Lord David Cecil
by Fox Photos Ltd
bromide print, 1951
NPG x40456
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1954
NPG x1785
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1954
NPG x1784
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1954
NPG x14040
Lord David Cecil; Rachel (née MacCarthy), Lady David Cecil
by Janet Stone
bromide print, 1966
NPG x23329
by Roger George Clark
bromide print, 15 October 1975
NPG x14993
by Stefan Mrozewski
wood engraving, 1935
NPG D4436
Sir Frederick Ashton; Lord David Cecil
by Cecil Beaton
pencil, late 1960s-early 1970s
NPG D17949(20)
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