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National Photographic Record (NPR): List of subjects commissioned - 1959	1917 \| 1918 \| 1919 \| 1920 \| 1921 \| 1922 \| 1923 \| 1924 \| 1925 \| 1926 \| 1927 \| 1928 \| 1929 \| 1930 \| 1931 \| 1932 \| 1933 \| 1934 \| 1935 \| 1936 \| 1937 \| 1938 \| 1939 \| 1940 \| 1941 \| 1942 \| 1943 \| 1944 \| 1945 \| 1946 \| 1947 \| 1948 \| 1949 \| 1950 \| 1951 \| 1952 \| 1953 \| 1954 \| 1955 \| 1956 \| 1957 \| 1958 \| 1959 \| 1960 \| 1961 \| 1962 \| 1963 \| 1964 \| 1965 \| 1966 \| 1967 \| 1968 \| 1969 \| 1970
	1959 120 sitters photographed by Walter Bird, including: William Baxter (1911-1979), Politician Henry Stanley Bennett (1889-1972), Vice-President of British Academy Sir George Benson (1889-1973), Politician (John), Reginald Bevins (b.1908), Politician Sir (Arthur), Harold Bibby (1889-1986), Major and businessman Sir Cyril Wilson Black (1902-1991), Property developer and politician Sir Ian Frederick Cheney Bolton (1889-1982), Captain Sir Frederick Carl Bovenschen (1884-1977), Civil Servant David Vivian Penrose Lewis, 1st Baron Brecon (1905-1976) Dame Ruth Burton Buckley (1898-1986) Sir Stanford Cade (1895-1973), Surgeon Gordon Thomas Calthrop Campbell, Baron Campbell of Croy (b.1921), Politician William Compton Carr (b.1918), Politician (William), Owen Chadwick (b.1916), Historian Hubert Huntlea Chapman (1910-1972), Air Vice-Marshal Sir Christopher ('Chris'), John Chataway (b.1931), Athlete and politician Walter McLennan Citrine, 1st Baron Citrine (1887-1983), Trade Unionist and public servant Sir Kenneth McKenzie Clark, 1st Baron Clark of Saltwood (1903-1983), Art patron and historian Henry Maitland Clark (b.1929), Politician and journalist Leonard Harry Cleaver (1909-1993), Politician Sir Ralph Alexander Cochrane (1895-1977), Air Chief-Marshal Sir Robert Cockburn (1909-1994) Clifford Coffin (1870-1959), Major General John Walgrave Halford Cottesloe, 4th Baron Cottesloe (1900-1994), Arts administrator Jack Nixon Browne Craigton, Baron Craigton (1904-1993), Politician Cyril Leonard Cresswell (1890-1974) Sir Alexander Cunnison (1879-1959) Joan Davidson, Viscountess Davidson and Baroness Northchurch (1894-1985), Politician Sir John Gilbert Davis (1911-1989), Air Chief-Marshal Ronald Albert Bramwell Davis (1905-1974), Major General Sir Patrick Robin Gilbert Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 4th Baron Derwent (1901-1986) Bruce G. Dickins (1889-1978) Sir Pierson John Dixon (1904-1965), Diplomatist Desmond Louis Donnelly (1920-1974), Politician and writer Adm. Sir Desmond (Parry), Dreyer (b.1910), Admiral Henry James Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, 11th Earl of Dundee (1902-1983) Frederick James Erroll, Baron Erroll of Hale and Baron Erroll of Kilmun (1914-2000), Politician Nigel Ivan Forbes, 22nd Baron Forbes (b.1918) Sir Edward Ford (1902-1986) Bruce Austin Fraser, Baron Fraser of North Cape (1888-1981), Naval Officer Major Sir Leslie Alfred Charles Fry (1908-1976)
Return to top	Sir Humfrey Myddelton Gale (1890-1971), Army Officer and Administrator Sir George William Hoggan Gardner (1903-1975), JBE Chairman Dame Helen Louise Gardner (1908-1986), Literary Scholar and University Teacher Sir John Clarke George (1901-1972), Politician Sir Ronald Ernest German (1905-1983) Robert Grant Grant-Ferris, Baron Harvington (1907-1997) Douglas Basil Hall of Dunglass, 14th Bt (1909-2004) Reginald Geoffrey Stirling Hobbs (1908-1977), Major General Alan Cripps Nind Hopkins (b.1926), Politician Michael Henry Colin Hughes-Young, 1st Baron St Helens (1912-1980), Politician Sir (Hubert), Nutcombe Hume (1893-1967), Financier Henry Hynd (1900-1985)
Return to top	Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson (1909-1991), Professor of Celtic Languages Eric Stead Jackson (1909-1991) David Pelham James (Guthrie-James), (1919-1986), Politician Lena May Jeger (b.1915), Baroness of St. Pancras in Greater London Sir Charles Hepburn Johnston (1912-1986), Diplomatist and writer Daniel Gruffydd Jones (b.1933), Politician Neil Ripley Ker (1908-1992), Paleographer Sir Timothy Kitson (b.1931), Politician Sir Henry Philpot Koelle (1901-1980), Vice-Admiral Sir (John), Gilbert Laithwaite (1894-1886), Civil servant and diplomatist Sir (Reginald), Patrick Linstead (1902-1966) Richard Eyre Lloyd (1906-1991)
Return to top	Sir Edward Lancelot Mallalieu (Sir Lance), (1905-1979), Politician John Clotworthy Whyte-Melville-Skeffington, 13th Viscount Massereene & Ferrard (1914-1992) William Percival Edwin McIntyre (1903-1986), Surgeon Rear Admiral Martin McLaren (1914-1979), Politician Sir Roderick William McLeod (1905-1980) Sir Walter Hugh Merton (1905-1986), Air Marshal Bruce Millan (b.1927), Politician Sir David Milne (1896-1972), Civil Servant Sir Frederick Albert Minter (1887-1976) Arthur Hugh Elsdale Molson, Baron Molson (1903-1991) Sir Alexander Francis Morley (1908-1971) Sir Douglas Griffith Morris (1908-1990), Air Marshal
Return to top	Harry Louis Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan (1889-1963), Lawyer Sir John Osborn (b.1922), Scientist, soldier, industrialist and politician Sir Robert Platt, Baron Platt (1900-1978), Physician Major Sir Richard George Douglas Powell, 3rd Bt (1909-1980) Courtenay Arthur Ralegh Radford (1900-1998), Archaeologist James Scott Cumberland Reid, 1st Baron Reid (1890-1975), Judge Joan Violet Robinson (1903-1983), Economist Sir John Charles Rodgers, 1st Bt (1906-1993), Conservative Politician Sir Owen Patrick James Rooney (1900-1972), Major General
Return to top	Jocelyn Edward Salis Simon, Baron Simon of Glaisdale (b.1911), Politician Sir Richard Michael Smeeton (1912-1992), Vice-Admiral Thomas Browne Smith (1915-1988) John Patrick Somers Cocks, 8th Baron Somers (1907-1995) James Gordon McIntyre Sorn, Hon. Lord Sorn (1896-1983) (Evelyn), John St. Loe Strachey (1901-1963), Socialist theorist and politician Dame Margaret (Maggie), Teyte (1888-1976), Singer Sir Richard Hilton Marler Thompson, 1st Bt (1912-1999), Politician Sir Kenneth Pugh Thompson, 1st Bt (1909-1984), Politician (George Edward), Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft (1909-1994), Politician Sir Guy Frederick Thorold (1898-1970) Henry Charles Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 7th Baron Thurlow (1910-1971) Sir John Dudley Robert Tarleton Tilney (1907-1994) Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975), Historian Sir Denis Henry Truscott (1908-1989) Robert Hugh Turton, BaronTurton (1903-1994), Politician
Return to top	Sir John Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan, Baron Reigate (1905-1995) Frank William Walbank (b.1909), Professor of ancient history John Walker Howarth Seymour Walkey (1900-1970), Rear Admiral Sir (Alfred), Dudley Ward (1905-1991), Army Officer Richard George Kitchener Way (1914-1998), Civil servant and university administrator Sir John Gerard Willsley Weston (1908-1979), Air Vice-Marshal Sir John Wheeler-Bennett (1902-1975), Historian and international affairs expert George Edward Cecil Wigg (1900-1983), Politician Dame Alice Mary Williamson (1903-1983), Air Commander Sir George Wilson (1900-1979) Rudolf Wittkower (1901-1971) Sir Percy Wyn-Harris (1903-1979), Colonial Governor, mountaineer and yachtsman Ralph Younger (1904-1985), Major General

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