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John Warburton Beckett
1 of 2 portraits of John Warburton Beckett
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John Warburton Beckett
by Lafayette
whole-plate film negative, 12 February 1929
Given by Pinewood Studios via Victoria and Albert Museum, 1989
Photographs Collection
NPG x69362
Sitterback to top
- John Warburton Beckett (1894-1964), Journalist and Labour politician; MP for Gateshead and Peckham. Sitter associated with 2 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Lafayette (Lafayette Ltd) (active 1880-1962), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 6908 portraits.
Events of 1929back to top
Current affairs
The first election held under universal suffrage is a victory for Labour. Ramsay Macdonald returned for his second term as Prime Minster, and appointed Margaret Grace Bondfield as the first woman Cabinet Minister.Art and science
Two classic books about the First World War are published: All Quiet on the Western Front, by war veteran, Erich Maria Remarque, tells of the horrors of war and the returning German soldiers' feelings of detachment from civilian life; while Robert Grave's autobiography Goodbye to All That, aimed to describe the author's experiences of the war so that they 'need never be thought about again'.International
The 24th October 1929 becomes known as Black Thursday when the US Stock Exchange Collapses and millions are lost. The event was the start of the Wall Street Crash, which in turn contributed towards the Great Depression: a major international recession that lasted through most of the 1930s.Comments back to top
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Sean Scholfield
26 January 2019, 10:08
John Beckett became a national socialist in the 1930s. He tagged along with the Duke of Bedford and was arrested and interned in 1940. The main plank of his politics was antisemitism. He resumed this post war with the League of Christian Refomers. The son of the Duke Of Bedford speculated that people of his fathers ilk were good at getting him to part with money for these causes. Some lived on his estate and were evicted after his death.
As a pressure group They put up a slide film in a hotel at Hyde Park showing the brutality of the Germans under allied rule in 1947-the movie show was smashed up by anti fascists.