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Griffiths Brewer

1867-1948
Balloonist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir John Leigh Charlton Briscoe, 4th Bt

1911-1993
Director of Operations, British Airports Authority
Sitter in 2 portraits

Diana Britten

1946-
Pilot and aerobatic champion
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Edgar Theophilus Britten

1874-1936
Captain of the Cunard White Star Liner Queen Mary
Sitter in 13 portraits

Anne Brooksbank (née Gataker)

active mid 18th century
Wife of Stamp Brooksbank, commissioner of excise
Sitter in 1 portrait

Alison Brown

Aeronautical engineer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Henry John Brown

born 1863
Oil company chairman
Sitter in 1 portrait

Winifred Sawley Brown (later Winifred Adams)

1899-1984
Pilot; wife of Edwin R. Adams
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Frederick Brundrett

1894-1974
Chairman of Aeronautical Research Council
Sitter in 5 portraits

George Hartley Bryan

1864-1928
Aeronautical engineer
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir John Scoular Buchanan

1883-1966
Aeronautical engineer
Sitter in 5 portraits

Hugo Massac Buist

1878-1966
Aviation and motoring pioneer and publicist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Dame (Susan) Jocelyn Bell Burnell

1943-
Physicist and radio astronomer
Sitter in 2 portraits

Oliver Robert Hawke Bury

1861-1946
General Manager of the Great Northern Railway
Sitter in 1 portrait

Frank Hedges Butler

1855-1928
Balloonist and pioneer of flying
Sitter in 7 portraits

Sir James Caird, 1st Bt

1864-1954
Shipowner
Sitter in 1 portrait

Don Cameron

1939-
Balloonist and balloon designer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Alan Colin Campbell-Orde

1898-1992
Pilot and aviation consultant
Sitter in 5 portraits

Alexander Montgomery Carlisle

1854-1926
Shipbuilder and Chairman of Managing Directors at Harland and Wolff
Sitter in 3 portraits

John Corrie Carter

1840-1927
Railwayman and oarsman
Sitter in 1 portrait

Wilfred George Carter

1889-1969
Aircraft engineer and chief designer at Glosters
Sitter in 1 portrait

Charles Castleman

1807-1876
Lawyer and Chairman of the London & South Western Railway
Sitter in 1 portrait

Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor

1847-1911
Politician and railway administrator; First Lord of the Admiralty
Sitter in 4 portraits

Sir Walter Cawood

1907-1967
Chief Scientist, Ministry of Aviation
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir George Cayley, 6th Bt

1773-1857
Pioneer of aviation
Sitter in 2 portraits

Henry Charles Charleton

1870-1959
Politician, train driver and trade unionist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Corise Helen Margaret Cherry (née Rankin, later Shaw)

1911-1967
Amateur aviator; former wife of John Cherry, and later wife of Richard Shaw; daughter of Sir Robert Rankin
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke

1917-2008
Scientist, writer and author of science fiction
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Alan John Cobham

1894-1973
Pioneer aviator
Sitter in 29 portraits

Samuel Franklin Cody

1867-1913
Aviator
Sitter in 7 portraits

H.J. Comber

Chief Officer, Labour for the LMS railway
Sitter in 1 portrait

Jean Conan Doyle

1912-1997
Director of the Women's Royal Air Force; daughter of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; wife of Sir Geoffrey Rhodes Bromet
Sitter associated with 5 portraits

Sir Robert Lowden Connell

1867-1936
Shipowner
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir James Temple Cotton

1879-1965
Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Aircraft Production
Sitter in 3 portraits

Henry Tracey Coxwell

1819-1900
Balloonist and meteorologist
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Charles Worthington Craven, 1st Bt

1884-1944
Commander of the Royal Navy and businessman
Sitter in 6 portraits

Hungerford Crewe, 3rd Baron Crewe

1812-1894
Landowner and antiquarian
Sitter in 2 portraits

Henry Lumsden Crichton

1890-1952
Squadron Leader and later Air Commodore, Royal Air Force
Sitter in 2 portraits

Charles Patrick Colum Henry Crichton-Stuart

1939-
Pilot and racing driver; son of Lord Patrick Crichton-Stuart
Sitter in 3 portraits

Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton

1845-1940
Engineer
Sitter in 2 portraits