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Dame Elsie Myrtle Abbot

1907-1983
Third Secretary, HM Treasury
Sitter in 1 portrait

Mordecai Abbot

1657-1700
Receiver General of the customs
Sitter in 1 portrait

Diane Abbott

1953-
Labour politician; MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington
Sitter in 5 portraits

Ibrahim Abboud

1900-1983
Sudanese army officer and politician
Sitter in 1 portrait

Jaurar Ben Abdallah

active mid 17th century
Lord Chamberlain, privy seal and Prime Minister to the Emperor of Morocco
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir George Edmond Brackenbury Abell

1904-1989
First civil service commissioner
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Abell

1584-circa 1655
English vintner; Alderman of London
Sitter in 5 portraits

Sir Henry Abel Smith

1900-1993
Army officer and colonial administrator
Sitter in 7 portraits

Reginald Henry Macaulay Abel Smith

1890-1964
Captain and High Sheriff of Hertfordshire
Sitter in 1 portrait

Charles Benjamin Bright McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway

1850-1934
Barrister, industrialist and politician
Sitter in 10 portraits

James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn

1811-1885
Landowner and politician; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Sitter in 13 portraits

James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn

1838-1913
Diplomat and politician; MP for County Donegal
Sitter in 5 portraits

James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn

1869-1953
Soldier and politician, Governor of Northern Ireland
Sitter in 14 portraits

James Edward Hamilton, 4th Duke of Abercorn

1904-1979
Army officer and Member of Government of Northern Ireland
Sitter in 8 portraits

Alexander Abercromby, Lord Abercromby

1745-1795
Lord Commissioner of Justiciary for Scotland
Sitter in 1 portrait

Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare

1815-1895
Politician, Home Secretary and Lord President of the Council; ex-officio Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery
Sitter in 12 portraits

Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare

1919-2005
Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords
Sitter in 1 portrait

George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen

1784-1860
Prime Minister
Sitter associated with 57 portraits

John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair

1847-1934
Statesman
Sitter in 23 portraits

Ishbel Maria (née Marjoribanks), Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair

1857-1939
Promoter and patron of social service enterprises
Sitter in 17 portraits