Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth
1 portrait of Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth
by Bassano Ltd
bromide print, 1930
Purchased, 1996
Photographs Collection
NPG x83802
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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.
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- Bassano Ltd (active 1901-1962), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 42746 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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- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (photographer's studio, 38 Dover Street, London)
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