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David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, Earl of Kilmuir

(1900-1967), Politician; Home Secretary and Lord High Chancellor, lawyer and judge

Sitter in 18 portraits
Conservative politician and barrister. Deputy Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg war trials; Home Secretary (1951-3); appointed Lord Chancellor in 1954, but sacked, together with six other cabinet members, in July 1962 during Macmillan's 'Night of the Long Knives'.

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David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, Earl of Kilmuir

by Harold Knight
oil on canvas, circa 1954-1961
NPG 7055

This is a far, far better thing.... than I have ever done

by Neville Colvin ('Colvin')
pen and ink and Letratone, 1962
NPG 5350

David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, Earl of Kilmuir

by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 27 September 1946
NPG x168742

David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, Earl of Kilmuir

by Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 1951
NPG x90124

David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, Earl of Kilmuir

by Elliott & Fry
whole-plate glass negative, 14 November 1951
NPG x100297

David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, Earl of Kilmuir

by Elliott & Fry
whole-plate glass negative, 14 November 1951
NPG x100298

David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, Earl of Kilmuir

by Elliott & Fry
whole-plate glass negative, 14 November 1951
NPG x100299

David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, Earl of Kilmuir

by Elliott & Fry
whole-plate glass negative, 14 November 1951
NPG x100300

David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, Earl of Kilmuir

by Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 1954
NPG x90126

Winston Churchill giving his 80th birthday speech at Westminster Hall

by Jack Esten, for Reuters
bromide press print, 30 November 1954
NPG x199077

Winston Churchill and his cabinet of 1955

by International News Photos
vintage print, 1955
NPG x182304

David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, Earl of Kilmuir

by Walter Bird
bromide print, 5 March 1962
NPG x168743

David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, Earl of Kilmuir

by Rex Coleman, for Baron Studios
5 x 4 inch film negative, 1 December 1965
NPG x125943

David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, Earl of Kilmuir

by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, 27 September 1946
NPG x188278

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David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, Earl of Kilmuir

by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, 27 September 1946
NPG x188279

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David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, Earl of Kilmuir

by Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 1951
NPG x89310

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David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, Earl of Kilmuir

by Elliott & Fry
half-plate negative, 1954
NPG x82391

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David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, Earl of Kilmuir

by Walter Bird
vintage print, 1962
NPG x183921

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Germany

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