Liberal politicians

Sir Alpheus Cleophas Morton

1840-1923
Architect and Liberal politician; MP for Sutherland and Peterborough
Sitter in 8 portraits

Hugh Fletcher Moulton

1876-1962
Author, barrister and Liberal politician; MP for Salisbury
Sitter in 3 portraits

William Francis Cowper-Temple, 1st Baron Mount-Temple

1811-1888
Liberal Party politician and statesman
Sitter in 13 portraits

George Augustus Constantine Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby

1819-1890
Governor of Nova Soctia, Queensland, New Zealand and Victoria and Liberal politician; MP for Scarborough
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Thomas Norris

1808-1870
Liberal politician; MP for Abingdon
Sitter in 1 portrait

Frederick North

1800-1869
Liberal politician; MP for Hastings
Sitter in 1 portrait

Francis George Baring, 2nd Earl of Northbrook

1850-1929
Liberal politician; MP for Winchester and Biggleswade
Sitter in 1 portrait

Charles Henry Wilson, 1st Baron Nunburnholme

1833-1907
Shipowner; head of Thomas Wilson Sons & Co and Liberal politician; MP for Hull and Hull West
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir John Ogilvy, 9th Bt

1803-1890
Liberal politician; MP for Dundee
Sitter in 2 portraits

Ralph Bernal Osborne

1808?-1882
Liberal politician; First Secretary of the Admiralty
Sitter in 7 portraits

Richard Alexander Oswald

1771-1841
Liberal politician: MP for Ayrshire
Sitter in 1 portrait

Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith

1852-1928
Prime Minister
Sitter in 73 portraits

Richard Padmore

1789-1881
Iron-founder, banker, Sheriff of Worcester and Liberal politician; MP for Worcester
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Hinde Palmer

1808-1884
Author, barrister and Liberal politician; MP for Lincoln
Sitter in 3 portraits

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

1784-1865
Prime Minister
Sitter in 146 portraits

James Pattison

1786-1849
Governor of the Bank of England and Liberal politician; MP for the City of London
Sitter in 1 portrait

James Mellor Paulton

1857-1923
Journalist and Liberal politician; MP for Bishop Auckland
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease, 1st Bt

1828-1903
Banker, industrialist and Liberal politician; MP for South Durham and Barnard Castle
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Frederick Peel, Bt

1823-1906
Railways commissioner and Liberal politician; MP for Leominster and Bury
Sitter in 3 portraits

Nelia Penman (née Muspratt)

1915-2017
Barrister; politician and president of the Women’s Liberal Federation; wife of Derek Penman
Sitter in 1 portrait

Mark Philips

1800-1873
Liberal politician; MP for Manchester
Sitter in 1 portrait

Ernest Harold Pickering

1881-1957
Professor of English Literature, Tokyo University and Liberal politician; MP for Leicester West
Sitter in 3 portraits

Edward Hare Pickersgill

1851-1911
Liberal politician; MP for Bethnal Green South West
Sitter in 1 portrait

George Pitt-Lewis

1845-1906
Judge and Liberal politician; MP for Barnstaple
Sitter in 2 portraits

James Platt

1823 or 1824-1857
Manufacturer and Liberal politician; MP for Oldham
Sitter in 1 portrait

Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby

1871-1946
Writer, social activist and Labour politician; MP for Stirling Burghs and Sheffield Brightside
Sitter in 7 portraits

Edward Berkeley Portman, 1st Viscount Portman

1799-1888
Liberal politician; MP for Marylebone and Dorset
Sitter in 4 portraits

Richard Potter

1778-1842
Reformist; founding member of the 'Little Circle' and Liberal politician; MP for Wigan
Sitter in 5 portraits

Walter Rice Howell Powell

1819-1889
Landowner and politician; MP for Carmarthenshire
Sitter associated with 1 portrait

William Stephen Poyntz

circa 1769-1840
Politician; MP for St Albans, Chichester and Ashburton
Sitter in 1 portrait

James Archibald Neil Primrose

1882-1917
Soldier and Liberal politician; MP for Wisbech
Sitter in 7 portraits

William Henderson Pringle

1877-1967
Economist, lecturer and Liberal politician; candidate for MP for Berwick & Haddington and Ayr Burghs (unsuccessful)
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Charles Ramsden

1788-1836
Politician; MP for Malton and Yorkshire
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Rhys Rhys Williams (né Williams), 1st Bt

1865-1955
Barrister and Liberal politician; MP for Banbury
Sitter in 1 portrait

Emrys Owain Roberts

1910-1990
Solicitor, businessman and Liberal politician; MP for Merioneth
Sitter associated with 7 portraits

Thomas Atholl Robertson

1874-1955
Scottish fine arts printer, publisher and Liberal politician
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Sydney Walter Robinson

1876-1950
Building contractor, farmer and Liberal politician; MP for Chelmsford
Sitter in 2 portraits

William Snowdon Robson, 1st Baron Robson

1852-1918
Lawyer, judge and Liberal politician: MP Bow and Bromley and Shouth Shields
Sitter in 4 portraits

Ernest Henry Lamb, 1st Baron Rochester

1876-1955
Politician; MP for Rochester
Sitter in 8 portraits

William Rodgers, Baron Rodgers

1928-
Politician; co-founder and leader of the Liberal Democrats
Sitter in 1 portrait