George Mann MacBeth
(1932-1992), Poet and writerSitter in 7 portraits
MacBeth graduated from New College, Oxford in 1955 after publishing his first collection of poetry A Form of Words (1954). From 1955 to 1976 he worked for the BBC as a radio producer on poetry programmes and became associated with The Group, a company of poets including Ted Hughes and Alan Brownjohn whose aim it was to modernize verse. He published twenty-one poetry collections, nine novels and complied anthologies of poetry. He married his second wife, Lisa St Aubin de Teran, in 1982 (dissolved 1989), the year in which her first novel, Keepers of the House won the Somerset Maugham Award. She has written seven other novels, memoirs and poetry.
by Lewis Morley
bromide fibre print, early 1960s
NPG x38909
by Fay Godwin
bromide print, 1973
NPG x15445
by Nicholas Elder
bromide print on card mount, July 1974
NPG x4045
Lisa Gioconda St Aubin de Teran; George Mann MacBeth
by Susan Lipper
bromide print, 1982
NPG x24130
Lisa Gioconda St Aubin de Teran; George Mann MacBeth
by Stephen Hyde
bromide fibre print, February 1983
NPG x76329
George Mann MacBeth; Lisa Gioconda St Aubin de Teran
by Susan Lipper
bromide fibre print, 1983
NPG x87174
George Mann MacBeth; Alexander Morton George MacBeth; Lisa Gioconda St Aubin de Teran
by Susan Lipper
bromide fibre print, 1983
NPG x87173
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