Lord David Cecil
(1902-1986), Scholar, teacher and writerSitter in 74 portraits
Scholar and biographer; A Fellow and Lecturer in Modern History at Wadham College in the 1920s, Cecil left academic life in 1930 to devote himself to writing biography and criticism. He returned and was Professor of English Literature at New College, Oxford University (1948-69); His works include a study of William Cowper, The Stricken Deer (1929), Jane Austen (1935) and two volumes on Lord Melbourne (1939, 1954).
by Henry Lamb
pencil, 1930s?
NPG 5556
by Bern Schwartz
dye transfer print, 23 March 1977
NPG P1150
by Emma Sergeant
oil on panel, 1982
NPG 5503
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
NPG Ax141282
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
NPG Ax141281
Henry Major Tomlinson; Lord David Cecil
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
NPG Ax141301
Sir Desmond MacCarthy; Lord David Cecil
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
NPG Ax141338
Siegfried Sassoon; Lord David Cecil
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
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Siegfried Sassoon; Lord David Cecil; Jean de Menasce
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
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Virginia Woolf; Lord David Cecil
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1923
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Lord David Cecil; Edward ('Eddy') Sackville-West; Virginia Woolf; Lytton Strachey
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1923
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Lord David Cecil; Lady Gwendeline Theresa Mary Spencer Churchill (née Bertie)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
NPG Ax141397
William Henry Smith, 3rd Viscount Hambleden; Lord David Cecil
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
NPG Ax141398
Mary Blunden (née Daines); Edmund Blunden; Lord David Cecil
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
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'Sunday Afternoon' (Lord David Cecil; T.S. Eliot)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
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Lord David Cecil; L.P. Hartley; Virginia Woolf; Anthony Asquith; Sylvester Govett Gates
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1923
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1923
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Lord David Cecil; L.P. Hartley
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1924
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Bob Gathorne-Hardy; Lord David Cecil; L.P. Hartley
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1924
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1924
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Peter Ralli; Jean de Menasce; L.P. Hartley; Lord David Cecil and four unknown sitters
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1924
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Lord David Cecil; Lytton Strachey
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1924
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1925
NPG Ax142198
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1925
NPG Ax142199
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1925
NPG Ax142201
Philip Morrell with friends at Garsington
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1926
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, January 1927
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Vivienne ('Vivien') Eliot (née Haigh-Wood); Lord David Cecil; Elizabeth Bowen; T.S. Eliot
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1931
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1931
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Group including James Stephens; Vivien and T.S. Eliot; Lady Huxley and Alberto Moravia
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1931
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Group including James Stephens; Vivien and T.S. Eliot and Lady Huxley
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1931
NPG Ax143430
Lord David Cecil; Vivienne ('Vivien') Eliot (née Haigh-Wood); Elizabeth Bowen
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1931
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Lord David Cecil; Rachel (née MacCarthy), Lady David Cecil; Siegfried Sassoon
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1933
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Lord David Cecil; Rachel (née MacCarthy), Lady David Cecil; Siegfried Sassoon
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1933
NPG Ax143586
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1939
NPG x1776
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1939
NPG x1777
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1939
NPG x1778
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1939
NPG x1779
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1939
NPG x1780
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1939
NPG x1781
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1939
NPG x1782
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1939
NPG x1783
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1939
NPG x10657
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1939
NPG x10614
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1939
NPG x10615
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1939
NPG x10616
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1939
NPG x10617
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1939
NPG x10618
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1939
NPG x10619
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1939
NPG x10620
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1939
NPG x10621
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1939
NPG x10622
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1939
NPG x10623
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1939
NPG x10624
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