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
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
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Henry Major Tomlinson; Lord David Cecil
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
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Sir Desmond MacCarthy; Lord David Cecil
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
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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
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William Henry Smith, 3rd Viscount Hambleden; Lord David Cecil
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
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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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