Charles Kingsley Adams
1 portrait of Charles Kingsley Adams
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Charles Kingsley Adams
by Walter Bird
bromide print on cream card mount, December 1964
11 5/8 in. x 9 5/8 in. (294 mm x 246 mm)
Commissioned, 1964
Photographs Collection
NPG x26340
Sitterback to top
- Charles Kingsley Adams (1899-1971), Director of the National Portrait Gallery. Sitter in 1 portrait, Artist or producer associated with 4 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Walter Bird (1903-1969), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 1429 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
Events of 1964back to top
Current affairs
Harold Wilson narrowly wins the general election for the Labour Party, the first of his four election victories.Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans become the last people to be executed in the United Kingdom before capital punishment was abolished in 1965.
The Sun newspaper replaces the Daily Herald.
Art and science
Top of the Pops begins its reign as the longest running television music show. The first broadcast was presented by Jimmy Savile and included the Rolling Stones, Dusty Springfield, The Hollies and The Beatles, who were the show's first number 1 with I Want to Hold Your Hand.International
The Civil Rights Act is passed in the USA, outlawing discrimination based on race, colour, religion, sex or national origin. The Act abolished the 'Jim Crow Laws' in the Southern States, making forced segregation illegal.After spending two years in prison Nelson Mandela is sentenced to Life in Prison for the crimes of sabotage and crimes equivalent to treason against the Republic of South Africa.
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Dr Selby Whittingham (temporary assistant, NPG, 1960)
08 October 2018, 12:16
He was a saint according to his successor, David Piper. Everyone who knew him will have fond memories of him.
He joined the NPG a century ago - in 1918 - and became Director, as he remarked to me, according to the law of Buggin's Turn. But he had a better and more catholic idea of the function of the NPG and what portraiture is essentially about than have had some of his successors!