Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
(1872-1930), Lord ChancellorSitter associated with 16 portraits
Sir Frederick, 'F.E.', Smith was Attorney-General and Director of Public Prosecutions when he took on the brief at the first hearing at Bow Street Magistrates Court as Counsel for the Prosecution. Smith was Conservative Unionist MP for Liverpool Walton (1906-18), and a supporter of the Protestant Ulster Unionists. His own political speeches were described by Winston Churchill as 'verbal treasons'. He had a seat in the Cabinet throughout the War, became Lord Chancellor (1919-22) and Secretary of State for India (1924-8) and was ennobled as the first Lord Birkenhead.
Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
replica by Sir Oswald Birley
oil on canvas, 1932, based on a work of circa 1922
NPG 2552
Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
by Robert Stewart Sherriffs
pen and ink, 1929
NPG 5224(4)
Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1919
NPG x165275
Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
by Walter Stoneman
negative, 1919
NPG x34507
Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
by Walter Stoneman
negative, 1919
NPG x38258
Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
by Walter Stoneman
negative, 1919
NPG x38260
Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead and an unknown man
by Unknown photographer
vintage print, 1920s
NPG x194236
Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 5 February 1925
NPG x127871
Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 5 February 1925
NPG x127872
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 16 January 1907
NPG D45363
Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead ('Men of the Day. No. 1291. "No Surrender."')
by Frederick Drummond Niblett ('Nibs')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 9 August 1911
NPG D45622
Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
colour relief halftone cigarette card, 1926
NPG D2658
by Bernard Partridge
ink and watercolour on artists' board, 1927
NPG D9605
'Mr. Punch's Fair of British Industries'
by Bernard Partridge
ink and watercolour on artists' board, 1928
NPG D9626
Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
by Walter Stoneman
negative, 1919
NPG x38259
by William Umpleby Kirk
halftone reproduction, published 18 August 1920
NPG Ax105844
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