Robert Lynd
(1879-1949), JournalistSitter in 20 portraits
Belfast-born Robert Lynd worked briefly for the Northern Whig before moving to Manchester and then to London as a free-lance journalist. In 1908, he became a staff writer for the Daily News (later the News Chronicle) and from 1912 to 1947 was the paper's literary editor. Under the pseudonym of Y. Y., Lynd contributed a weekly literary essay to the New Statesman from 1913 until 1945. It is for this remarkable sequence of essays that he is best remembered today.
by Henry Lamb
black and red chalk, circa 1947
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Sylvia Lynd; Robert Lynd and their two daughters
by Unknown photographer
vintage bromide print on brown card mount, 1913-1914
NPG x1600
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1933
NPG Ax3467
by Howard Coster
print, 1933
NPG x24040
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1933
NPG Ax136122
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