Academics and scholars

Robert William Speaight

1904-1976
Actor and literary scholar
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir James Calvert Spence

1892-1954
Professor of Child Health
Sitter in 1 portrait

Joseph Spence

1699-1768
Literary scholar and anecdotist
Sitter in 2 portraits

Victor Jullian Taylor Spiers

died 1937
Professor of French Language and Literature, Kings College
Sitter in 5 portraits

Thomas Sprat

1679-1720
Scholar, Dean of Westminster and Bishop of Rochester
Sitter in 6 portraits

Sir Cuthbert Allan Sprawson

1877-1956
Professor of Medicine and Major-General
Sitter in 2 portraits

Walter John Herbert ('Sebastian') Sprott

1897-1971
Sociologist
Sitter in 5 portraits

Maurice Stacey

1907-1994
Chemist and professor
Sitter associated with 2 portraits

Jon Stallworthy

1935-2014
Poet, Critic and Professor of English
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir (Laurence) Dudley Stamp

1898-1966
Professor of Geography
Sitter in 8 portraits

Thomas Stanley

1625-1678
Scholar and humanist
Sitter in 7 portraits

Gilbert Stead

1888-1979
Professor of Physics
Sitter in 3 portraits

Jeffrey Steele

1931-2021
Artist and lecturer
Sitter in 2 portraits

James Alfred Steers

1899-1987
Professor of Geography
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir (Marc) Aurel Stein

1862-1943
Scholar, explorer and archaeologist
Sitter in 12 portraits

(Francis) George Steiner

1929-2020
Writer and scholar
Sitter in 6 portraits

Thomas Alan Stephenson

1898-1961
Professor of Zoology
Sitter in 2 portraits

Alexander Bernard Stewart

1908-1974
Doctor; professor; Medical Advisor to Greater London Council and Inner London Education Authority
Sitter in 7 portraits

John Alexander Stewart

1846-1933
Emeritus White's Professor of Moral Philosophy, Oxford University
Sitter in 3 portraits

Matthew John Stewart

1885-1956
Professor of Pathology
Sitter in 2 portraits

Roderick James Nugent ('Rory') Stewart

1973-
Politician, academic, author and diplomat
Sitter in 1 portrait

Edward Philip Stibbe

1884-1943
Professor of Anatomy
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir (John) Richard Stone

1913-1991
Economist, Nobel Prize winner and Professor of Finance and Accounting, University of Cambridge
Sitter in 3 portraits

William Stone

1857-1958
Scholar and famous bachelor, known as 'The Squire of Piccadilly'
Sitter in 2 portraits

Harry Stopes-Roe

1924-2014
Scholar and vice-president of the British Humanist Association; son of Marie Stopes
Sitter in 3 portraits

Alice Stopford Green (née Alice Sophia Amelia Stopford)

1847-1929
Historian and Irish nationalist; wife of John Richard Green
Sitter in 1 portrait

Graham Storey

1922-2005
Scholar
Sitter in 1 portrait

Peter David Storie-Pugh

1919-2011
Colonel; Professor Emeritus Wolfson College, Cambridge
Sitter in 8 portraits

William Wetmore Story

1819-1895
Sculptor, poet and scholar
Sitter in 1 portrait

Robert Harvey Strachan

1873-1958
Professor of Literature and Language
Sitter in 1 portrait

Christopher Strachey

1916-1975
Professor of computer science
Sitter in 26 portraits

(Joan) Pernel Strachey

1876-1951
College head and french scholar
Sitter in 27 portraits

John Anderson Strong

1915-2012
Professor; President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Sitter associated with 6 portraits

Sandford Arthur Strong

1863-1904
Orientalist and art historian; Husband of Eugenie Strong
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir (Charles) Eric Stroud

1924-2006
Professor of Child Health, King’s College School of Medicine and Dentistry
Sitter in 1 portrait

Anderson Stuart

Professor
Sitter in 4 portraits

Sir Henry Stuart-Jones

1867-1939
Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford and author
Sitter in 5 portraits

Frank Henry Stubbings

1915-2005
Scholar; classicist and specialist in the Greek Bronze Age
Sitter in 1 portrait

Willie Sucksmith

1896-1981
Physicist; Professor of Physics
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Abdullah Suhrawardy

1870-1935
Islamic scholar, barrister and academic
Sitter in 3 portraits