Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire
(1917-1992), World War II hero and founder of Homes for the Disabled(Geoffrey) Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire
Sitter in 15 portraits
Distinguished Second World War bomber pilot. Cheshire was the official British observer at the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki on 15 August 1945, an experience which briefly made him a pacifist. He founded the Cheshire Homes for the Disabled (1948) and, with his wife Sue Ryder, the Ryder Cheshire Mission for the Relief of Suffering (1959). Cheshire himself had motor neurone disease from which he died on 31 July 1992, aged 74.
Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire
by Arnold Newman
bromide print, 1978
NPG P150(11)
Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire; Sue Ryder
by Rosalind Cuthbert
oil on canvas, 1982
NPG 5520
Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire
by Bassano Ltd
bromide print, 17 August 1944
NPG x85328
Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire
by Bassano Ltd
bromide print, 17 August 1944
NPG x85329
Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire
by Gordon Anthony
bromide print, 1944
NPG x38429
Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire; Norman Cyril Jackson
by London News Agency
bromide press print, 13 November 1945
On display in Room 27 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG x184310
N.W. Garrett; Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire
by E. Cheek
bromide press print, 1957
NPG x184309
Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire
by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, 10 February 1969
NPG x21955
Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire
by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, 10 February 1969
NPG x165970
Sue Ryder; Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire
by Anne-Katrin Purkiss
bromide fibre print, June 1987
NPG x31693
Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 17 August 1944
NPG x72709
Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 17 August 1944
NPG x72710
Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 17 August 1944
NPG x72711
Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 17 August 1944
NPG x72712
Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 17 August 1944
NPG x72713
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