Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

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• Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth (1888-1965), Politician. Sitter associated with 95 portraits.

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• Bassano (active 1902-1979). Artist associated with 41925 portraits.

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This carefully staged photograph of Morrison working diligently as a government official was made while he was in office as Minister of Transport. Poised to push through his highly anticipated Transport Bill, he radically proposed to create a public corporation in the form of a London Transport Board. Disaster struck when he was forced out of power by the failure of Ramsay MacDonald's government in 1931 and the emergency institution of a National Government, in which Morrison declined to participate. Instead, he returned to the London County Council, gaining wide acclaim as its first Labour Leader from 1934-40.

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• Bassano 1930

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• Eyeglasses and spectacles
• In profile