Charlotte Elizabeth ('Beth') Welford (née Britten); Benjamin Britten
1 portrait by Claremont Photo Stores
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Charlotte Elizabeth ('Beth') Welford (née Britten); Benjamin Britten
by Claremont Photo Stores
postcard print, circa 1930
5 1/4in. x 3 1/8in. (132 mm x 81 mm)
Given by the Britten estate, 1981
Photographs Collection
NPG x15181
Sittersback to top
- (Edward) Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (1913-1976), Composer. Sitter in 120 portraits, Artist or producer of 5 portraits.
- Charlotte Elizabeth ('Beth') Welford (née Britten) (1909-1989), Wife of Dr Kit Welford; sister of Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten. Sitter in 3 portraits.
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Events of 1930back to top
Current affairs
Amy Johnson is the first woman to fly solo to Australia. She flew the 11,000 miles from Croydon to Darwin in a De Havilland Gipsy Moth named Jason and won the Harmon Trophy as well as a CBE for her achievement. She went on to break a number of other flying records, and died while serving in the Air Transport Auxiliary in 1941.Art and science
Noel Coward's play, Private Lives is first performed. The original run starred Gertrude Lawrence and Laurence Olivier as well as Coward himself. Private Lives became Coward's most enduringly successful play.International
Gandhi leads the Salt March. The march to the coast was a direct protest against the British monopoly on the sale of salt and inspired hordes of Indians to follow him and adopt his methods of Satyagraha (non-violent resistance to the British rule of India).Stalin orders the 'liquidation of the kulaks (wealthy farmers) as a class' in a violent attempt to centralise control of agriculture and collectivise farming.
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